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From the Preface :

This ebook illustrates a set of song manuscripts which was once made in recent times to profit the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm by means of situations instead of any technique of choice. hence it indicates the numerous instructions during which track notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in response to varieties of track, yet alphabetically in keeping with the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the publication is the results of a strategy utilizing I-Ching likelihood operations. those made up our minds 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 e-book, they're preceded via 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 by accident operations. This technique was once so one can reduce 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 proper to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this e-book is the modern aquarium (no longer a gloomy hallway with every one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass condominium 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 numerous composers and track publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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