John Cage, Writer: Previously Uncollected PiecesLimelight Editions, 1993 - 281 Seiten In August 1992, John Cage died suddenly, just a month before he would have celebrated his eightieth birthday. The passing of one of the greatest avant garde figures of the century was mourned around the world and brought a new recognition of his achievements, in music and art, and a reconsideration of the Cage legacy that will long continue. An essential part of this legacy are the writings gathered here, which span more than fifty years of Cagean thought and creativity. Generally unfamiliar, they demonstrate that Cage was highly skilled in using language not only to provide insight into his own work but also to convey his response to the music of others; his ideas about art, film, and dance; and, in "An Autobiographical Statement," his reflections on his own life, career, and self-fulfillment. Written between the late '30's and the early '90's, these pieces here acquire the permanence they deserve. Some have never been published before. Many appeared only in magazines, journals, and catalogues; others in concert programs and on record covers. Also included are the texts of lectures and - of crucial importance to an appreciation of his music - Cage's notes on the performance of his compositions, courtesy of his music publisher, C. F. Peters. Taken together, these writings, from their diverse sources and in their rich variety, reveal a lessknown but central aspect of the genius of a mild-mannered, deeply courageous pioneer in the arts. Dance critic Nancy Dalva has written, "John Cage taught us to listen to the world." In this book we can learn what he heard. |
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Notes on Compositions I 193348 | 5 |
Listening to Music c 1937 | 15 |
The East in the West 1948 | 21 |
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John Cage, Writer: Previously Uncollected Pieces John Cage,Richard Kostelanetz Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1993 |
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amplitude asked audience Bach beginning Cage's changes Christian Wolff composing means composition concert conductor David Tudor duration electronic Erik Satie Etcetera Etudes Europera film formant four given graph Haiku happen harmony hear heard Henry Cowell idea indeterminate John Cage lecture length lines listening Lou Harrison Mac Low Marcel Duchamp material McLuhan melody Merce Cunningham mesostic mind minutes modern music move mushrooms Music For Piano musicale musicians Nam June Paik notation notes octave orchestra Oriental Paik percussion instruments performance pianist piano preparation piece pitch played players poetry points prepared piano Quartet radio raga recording Renga rhythm rhythmic structure Richard Kostelanetz Satie Schoenberg score sculpture silence singer singing single solo Sonatas songs sound space strings tamari tape texts there's things time-brackets tones twelve-tone violin Virgil Thomson voice words write music written wrote York