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From the Preface :

This booklet illustrates a suite of song manuscripts which was once made lately to profit the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm via situations instead of any strategy of choice. hence it exhibits the various instructions during which track notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in keeping with forms of song, yet alphabetically based on the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the ebook is the results of a strategy utilising 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 booklet, they're preceded through a paragraph signal and via the author's identify. different comments 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 decided unintentionally operations. This method was once on the way to decrease 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 write down 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 depressing hallway with each 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 booklet. The editors are thankful to the various composers and song publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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