Silence

by Cage, John; Gann, Kyle

• ISBN13: 9780819571762
• ISBN10: 0819571768
• Edition: 50th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-26
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Silence, John Cage's first book and epic masterpiece, 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. Fifty years later comes a beautiful new edition with a foreword by eminent music critic Kyle Gann. 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. Wesleyan University Press is proud to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book's publication with this special hardcover edition.

Table of Contents

Foreword to 50th Anniversary Edition

Foreword

Manifesto

The Future of Music: Credo

Experimental Music

Experimental Music: Doctrine

Composition as Process

Changes

Indeterminacy

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 Varese

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

Music Lovers' Field Companion

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