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Notations

From the Preface :

This booklet illustrates a suite of tune manuscripts which used to be made in recent times to learn the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute by way of conditions instead of any means of choice. therefore it exhibits the various instructions within which tune notation is now going. The manuscripts should not prepared based on types of track, yet alphabetically in line with the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.

The textual content for the ebook is the results of a method utilizing I-Ching probability operations. those decided what number phrases concerning 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 specifically written for this ebook, they're preceded through a paragraph signal and by means of the author's identify. different comments have been selected or written by means of 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 decided by accident operations. This technique used to be to be able 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 write down approximately notation or some· factor appropriate 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 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 publication. The editors are thankful to the various composers and tune publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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