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From the Preface :

This ebook illustrates a set of song manuscripts which was once made lately to profit the basis for modern functionality Arts. the gathering was firm via situations instead of any means of choice. hence it indicates the various instructions within which track notation is now going. The manuscripts are usually not prepared in line with types of tune, yet alphabetically in accordance with the composer's identify. No explanatory info is given.

The textual content for the e-book is the results of a procedure using I-Ching likelihood operations. those made up our minds what percentage 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 in particular written for this publication, they're preceded by means of a paragraph signal and by means 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 measurement, depth, and typeface - have been all made up our minds by accident operations. This technique was once to be able to decrease 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 put in writing approximately notation or some· factor proper to it. ) A precedent for the absence of data 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 residence 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 publication. The editors are thankful to the numerous composers and track publishers who've made this presentation of mid-twentieth century song notation attainable.

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