Silence : lectures and writings / John Cage.
By: Cage, John.
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BookPublisher: Middletown, Conn., ; Wesleyan University Press, 1961Description: 276 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0819560286.Subject(s): Cage, John | Music -- History and criticism
DDC classification: 780.8
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." -The American Record Guide
"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away."
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword
- Manifesto
- The Future of Music: Credo
- Experimental Music
- Experimental Music: Doctrine
- Composition as Process
- Changes
- Indeterminacy
- Communication
- Composition
- To Describe the 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
- 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?
- Indeterminancy
- Music Lovers' Field Companion
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Composer John Milton Cage, Jr., is best known for his avant-garde music, including pieces such as Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (1951) in which 12 radios are turned on intermittently. His 1943 premiere concert of percussion buzzers, pottery and scrap metal, all chosen for their potential sound.Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912 and studied music privately, becoming a teacher at the Chicago School of Design in 1941. Between 1944 and 1966, he was musical director at Merce Cunningham and Dance Co., and in 1949 he won a Guggenheim fellowship.
Cage wrote Virgil Thompson: His Life and Music (1959). His essays and lectures on music were collected into several books, including Silence: Selected Lectures and Writings (1961) and A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings (1967).
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