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From the Preface :

This publication illustrates a set of track manuscripts which used to be made in recent times to learn the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute via situations instead of any strategy of choice. hence it exhibits the numerous instructions during which track notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared based on varieties of tune, yet alphabetically in response to the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the ebook is the results of a technique using I-Ching probability operations. those made up our minds what percentage phrases concerning 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 specially written for this publication, they're preceded by way of a paragraph signal and through 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 accidentally operations. This approach used to be so one can 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 jot down approximately notation or some· factor proper to it. ) A precedent for the absence of knowledge which characterizes this e-book 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 condo 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 song publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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