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Silence : lectures & writings / John Cage.

By: Cage, John [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd., 1968Copyright date: ©1968Description: xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0714505269 (casebound).Subject(s): Cage, John | Music -- History and criticism | Composition (Music)DDC classification: 780.8
Contents:
The future of music: credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: doctrine -- Composition as process. I: Changes ; II: Indeterminacy ; III: Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varese -- Four statements on the dance. Goal: new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day... ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance -- On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending 780.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 03/10/2023 00168542
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

50th Anniversary edition first published October 1961

The future of music: credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: doctrine -- Composition as process. I: Changes ; II: Indeterminacy ; III: Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varese -- Four statements on the dance. Goal: new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day... ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance -- On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.

Dr. Geoffrey Spratt Collection.

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