Silence : lectures and writings
Silence, John Cage's first book, was published in October 1961. In these lectures, scores, and writings, Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing that comes from ideas, is not about them, but that produces them. Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching. A landmark book in American arts and culture, Silence has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over half a million copies worldwide
Print Book, English, 1961
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Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn., 1961
Music
xii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
9780819560285, 0819560286
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Foreword
Manifesto
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 Varèse
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
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