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From the Preface :

This e-book illustrates a set of track manuscripts which used to be made in recent times to profit the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm by means of conditions instead of any means of choice. therefore it exhibits the numerous instructions within which track notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in line with sorts of track, yet alphabetically in accordance with the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the booklet is the results of a procedure utilizing I-Ching likelihood operations. those made up our minds what number phrases concerning his paintings have been to be written by means 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 specially written for this e-book, they're preceded by way of a paragraph signal and through 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 by accident operations. This method was once as a 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 jot down approximately notation or some· factor appropriate to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this publication is the modern aquarium (no longer a dismal hallway with each one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass residence 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 song notation attainable.

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