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From the Preface :

This ebook illustrates a set of song manuscripts which was once made lately to profit the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute by means of conditions instead of any strategy of choice. therefore it exhibits the various instructions within which tune notation is now going. The manuscripts usually are not prepared based on types of track, yet alphabetically in response to the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.

The textual content for the publication is the results of a procedure applying I-Ching probability 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 in particular written for this booklet, they're preceded by means of a paragraph signal and by means of the author's identify. different comments have been selected or written through 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 unintentionally operations. This approach was once on the way to reduce the variation 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 jot down approximately notation or some· factor proper to it. ) A precedent for the absence of data 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 condo 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 publication. The editors are thankful to the numerous composers and tune publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century track notation attainable.

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