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From the Preface :

This e-book illustrates a suite of track manuscripts which used to be made lately to profit the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm by way of conditions instead of any means of choice. hence it indicates the various instructions during which tune notation is now going. The manuscripts will not be prepared based on varieties of track, yet alphabetically in keeping with the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.

The textual content for the booklet is the results of a approach using I-Ching probability 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 publication, they're preceded via a paragraph signal and by means of the author's identify. different comments have been selected or written through 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 accidentally operations. This approach was once so as to decrease 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 appropriate to it. ) A precedent for the absence of data 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 e-book. The editors are thankful to the various composers and tune publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century song notation attainable.

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