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Notations

From the Preface :

This e-book illustrates a suite of track manuscripts which used to be made lately to learn the root for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was resolute via conditions instead of any means of choice. hence it indicates the various instructions during which tune notation is now going. The manuscripts aren't prepared in keeping with types of track, yet alphabetically based on the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the ebook is the results of a method applying I-Ching likelihood operations. those decided 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 e-book, they're preceded through a paragraph signal and by way of the author's identify. different comments have been selected or written by way of 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 unintentionally operations. This strategy was once on the way 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 knowledge which characterizes this booklet is the modern aquarium (no longer a gloomy hallway with each one species in its personal illuminated tank separated from the others and named in Latin): a wide glass apartment 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 track publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century tune notation attainable.

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