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From the Preface :

This e-book illustrates a set of track manuscripts which was once made lately to learn the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm by means of conditions instead of any technique of choice. therefore it indicates the various instructions during which song notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in response to sorts of tune, yet alphabetically in accordance with the composer's identify. No explanatory details is given.

The textual content for the booklet is the results of a technique using I-Ching probability operations. those decided what number phrases relating to his paintings have been to be written through 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 booklet, they're preceded through a paragraph signal and by means of the author's identify. different feedback 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 decided by accident operations. This approach was once on the way 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 jot down approximately notation or some· factor appropriate to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this booklet 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 condominium 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 ebook. The editors are thankful to the numerous composers and song publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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