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From the Preface :

This ebook illustrates a suite of track manuscripts which used to be made in recent times to profit the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm by means of conditions instead of any strategy of choice. therefore it indicates the numerous instructions during which tune notation is now going. The manuscripts usually are not prepared based on varieties of track, yet alphabetically in accordance with the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the e-book is the results of a procedure applying I-Ching probability operations. those decided what number phrases concerning his paintings have been to be written by way of or approximately which of 2 hundred and sixty-nine composers. the place those passages (never greater than sixty-four phrases, occasionally just one) were particularly written for this publication, they're preceded by way of a paragraph signal and by means of the author's identify. different comments have been selected or written via the editors - John Cage and Alison Knowles. not just the variety of phrases and the writer, however the typography too - letter measurement, depth, and typeface - have been all made up our minds accidentally operations. This method was once so one can decrease the adaptation among textual content and illustrations. The composition of the pages is the paintings of Alison Knowles.

A precedent for the textual content is the Questionnaire. (The composers have been requested to put in writing approximately notation or some· factor appropriate to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this e-book is the modern aquarium (no longer a dismal hallway with every one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass residence with the entire fish in it swimming as in an ocean. the gathering of manuscripts constitutes an archive, the contents of that are indexed on the finish of this e-book. The editors are thankful to the various composers and song publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century track notation attainable.

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