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From the Preface :

This e-book illustrates a set of track manuscripts which used to be made lately to learn the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute by means of conditions instead of any means of choice. therefore it exhibits the numerous instructions within which tune notation is now going. The manuscripts will not be prepared in line with sorts of tune, yet alphabetically based on the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the e-book is the results of a technique applying I-Ching likelihood operations. those made up our minds what number phrases relating to 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 in particular written for this e-book, they're preceded by means of a paragraph signal and via 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 dimension, depth, and typeface - have been all made up our minds unintentionally operations. This approach was once with a purpose to 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 put in writing approximately notation or some· factor correct to it. ) A precedent for the absence of data which characterizes this publication is the modern aquarium (no longer a depressing hallway with every one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass residence 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 booklet. The editors are thankful to the numerous composers and tune publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century song notation attainable.

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