Silence
Subtitle: lectures and writings
By: by John Cage ; with foreword by Kyle Gann
Contributors: Gann, Kyle
Edition: 50th anniversary ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780819571762
Subjects: History and criticism; Music
Table of contents: title: Foreword to 50th anniversary edition / Kyle Gann; title: The future of music : credo; title: Experimental music; title: Experimental music : doctrine; title: Composition as process.  I. Changes ; II. Indeterminacy ; III. Communication; title: 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; title: Forerunners of modern music; title: History of experimental music in the United States; title: Erik Satie; title: Edgard Varèse; title: Four statements on the dance.  Goal : new music, new dance ; Grace and clarity ; In this day; title: ; 2 pages, 122 words on music and dance; title: On Robert Rauschenberg, artist, and his work; title: Lecture on nothing; title: Lecture on something; title: 45' for a speaker; title: Where are we going? and What are we doing?; title: Indeterminacy; title: Music lovers' field companion.