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From the Preface :

This ebook illustrates a set of tune manuscripts which was once made lately to learn the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute by means of situations instead of any strategy of choice. therefore it exhibits the numerous instructions during which track notation is now going. The manuscripts usually are not prepared in line with forms of tune, yet alphabetically based on the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.

The textual content for the ebook is the results of a approach making use of I-Ching likelihood operations. those made up our minds what number phrases relating to his paintings have been to be written via 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 ebook, they're preceded through a paragraph signal and by way of the author's identify. different feedback have been selected or written by way of the editors - John Cage and Alison Knowles. not just the variety of phrases and the writer, however the typography too - letter dimension, depth, and typeface - have been all made up our minds accidentally operations. This method was once in an effort to 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 write down approximately notation or some· factor suitable to it. ) A precedent for the absence of data which characterizes this ebook is the modern aquarium (no longer a gloomy hallway with each one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass condominium with all of the 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 numerous composers and song publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century track notation attainable.

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