Notations

by Unknown Author, Unknown Author

In this book has to do with music notation. Cage collates, reproduces, & displays 255 scores by a variety of contemporary composers invited to send their work with a limited word number commentary. The book is a wonderful exploration through the avant-garde, and it is great compelling nourishment for the composer to see the various graphic icons of someone's hand. Each work is reproduced in manuscript with the composer’s submitted commentary. The composers included represent most the 20th century. Sample list of Boulez Carter Cardew Ralph Shapey Stockhausen Milton Babbitt Christian Wolff Frederic Rzewski Roman Haubenstock Ramati Bo Nilsson Luigi Nono Luciano Berio Dick Higgins Nam June Paik David Tudor Alison Knowles George Brecht Giuseppi Ciardi Peter Maxwell Davies Jean-Claude Eloy Pierre Schaffer Luc Ferrari Pierre Henry George Maciunes Jackson Maclow (poet not composer) Franco Evangelisti Dieter Schnebel Henry Cowell Virgil Thompson Ben Johnston Lou Harrison Samuel Adler Eric Satie & many more

Genres: Music, Art, Poetry, Design, Nonfiction

Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1969

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Reviews

[Tentatively, Convenience · Rating 5 out of 5]

This bk was extremely exciting for me & is still of the utmost importance. As a young "d composer" I was very concerned w/ breaking out of almost every established musical practice. As an old fart I still am. This bk showed me a huge array of the experimentation that'd been done - mostly by composers who were expanding scores to try to address the general expansion of what was considered NEW MUSIC - music that embraced noise & extended playing techniques. Thank goodness for the deep scholarliness of John Cage! Thank goodness for the visionary publishing of Dick Higgins' Something Else Press!

[wacki_i_i · Rating 5 out of 5]

M slayed altijd

[Donal · Rating 5 out of 5]

!!!!!!!

[Tim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely incredible

[fletcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first came across this book in 2nd year music theory when the prof passed around their copy. Took me 12 years but I got my own copy. I'm still psyched.

[Veerle · Rating 5 out of 5]

By far the most special book I got in 2021. Browsing through its pages in awe.

[Unholy Meat Obelisk · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful, inspiring and even fun anthology. It also shows how limited traditional music notation became in the mid 20th Century.
Amazing.

[Creiche · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always a source of inspiration!

[BespectacledBookGirl]

I read this book sometime in March to accompany my thesis research, and as with all things John Cage it was quirky, beautiful, enigmatic. Will read again in life.

[Say Mayfire · Rating 4 out of 5]

great anthology! perfect for composers wishing to expand their experimental vocabulary