Silence : lectures and writings / by John Cage.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cage, John.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--20th century--History and criticism.

Music.

Physical Description:

xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Wesleyan paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1973.

Summary:

Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, "to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them." Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called "writing through").

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0819560286

9780819560285

OCLC:

45706329