John Cage

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300757778ISBN-13: 9790300757773Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2022Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.20w x 0.20d

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300757166ISBN-13: 9790300757162Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2022Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 11.84h x 9.14w x 0.36d

Includes lectures, essays, diaries and other writings, including How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) and Juilliard Lecture.Author: John CageISBN-10: 0819560022ISBN-13: 9780819560025Publisher: Wesleyan University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/1967Pages: 179Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.20h x 7.01w x 0.56dAbout the AuthorComposer, author, and philosopher,...

A major American thinker of the 20th century muses on anarchism.Winner of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Best Scholarly Typography (2002)That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it,...

One of the most visually striking graphic scores ever created, John Cage's 'Aria' was composed in 1958 as a theatrical tour de force for the soprano Cathy Berberian. It consists of 20 pages of colourful graphic prompts and provocations to the singer, each page...

for solo pianoDeciphered and transcribed by eminent pianist Margaret Leng Tan from the 1944 painting--held since then by a private collector--created by Cage for the Duchamp/Ernst exhibition, 'The Imagery of Chess.' Says Tan, 'Having been hidden in plain sight for over half a century,...

John Cage's poetical statement on indeterminacy, Duchamp, art, life and more Written in his characteristic "mesostics" (lines of prose poetry linked by a central vertical acrostic), Composition in Retrospect is a statement of methodology in which composer John Cage examines the central issues of...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300757956ISBN-13: 9790300757957Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 11.75h x 8.88w x 0.06d

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300736452ISBN-13: 9790300736457Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 16Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.07h x 9.00w x 0.04d

more than the score... is a series of classic piano music, covering much of the essential repertoire from Bach through Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Chopin and Debussy, right up to John Cage. Each volume focuses on one piece, with written masterclasses and background information encouraging...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300758715ISBN-13: 9790300758718Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 20Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.89h x 9.11w x 0.16d

Foraging for mushrooms with John Cage: writing, art, photography and ephemera from an idiosyncratic chapter in the composer's lifeImagined as an extended mushroom-foraging expedition, John Cage: A Mycological Foray gathers together Cage's mushroom-themed compositions, photographs, illustrations and ephemera. Indeterminacy Stories and other writings by...

"Over 16 years, beginning in 1965, John Cage compiled anecdotes, observations and koanlike tales, originally typing everything on an IBM Selectric and using chance methods to determine the formatting of texts that twist down each page. The Siglio edition preserves the graphic effects, but,...

Written between the late '30s and the early '90s, these pieces by John Cage 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...

The first and last movements of this piece are to be played on household objects, such as magazines, a table, books, or the floor, or using household architectural objects," such as window frames. The optional third movement is a melody performed by one player...

Cage's passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life togetherA New York Times critics' pick Best Art Books 2019 These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory, for while the two...

Mainly mesostics inspired by music, mushrooms, Marcel Duchamp, Merce Cunningham, Marshall McCluhan, etc. and includes Mureau-composed from the writings of Henry David Thoreau.Author: John CageISBN-10: 0819560359ISBN-13: 9780819560353Publisher: Wesleyan University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1973Pages: 233Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.14h x 7.02w x 0.73dAbout the AuthorJOHN CAGE was...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300739117ISBN-13: 9790300739113Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2022Pages: 1Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.80w x 0.70d

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300739400ISBN-13: 9790300739403Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 12Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 2.42h x 8.68w x 0.04d

In the early 1940s, John Cage was on the faculty of Mills College (in Oakland, California). While there, he wrote music to accompany the graduation theses of graduate dance students. The manuscripts for two of these works were recently rediscovered in the Mills College...

Solo OrganDistinct from Aslsp, all eight pieces are to be played. However, any one of them may be repeated, though not necessarily, and as in Aslsp the repetition may be placed anywhere in the series.Dedicated to Gerhard Zacher, by whom the premiere performance was...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300759495ISBN-13: 9790300759494Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2022Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 12.05h x 9.61w x 0.19d

This compilation volume of John Cage's early piano works represents an ideal introduction to the composer. These works are approachable by pianists of intermediate ability and demonstrate Cage's originality and anticipation of trends (such as minimalism) that would not fully emerge for another two...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300747527ISBN-13: 9790300747521Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w x 0.30d

One of John Cage's most striking musical inventions was the 'prepared piano' which he created in 1938 in order to place an entire percussion section in the hands of a single pianist. First used to accompany dancers, Cage composed several works using the prepared...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 030073283XISBN-13: 9790300732831Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 28Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.69h x 11.58w x 0.09d

Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but...

Silence, A Year from Monday, M, Empty Words and X (in this order) form the five parts of a series of books in which Cage tries, as he says, to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but...

The Sonatas and Interludes are Cage's masterwork for prepared piano. It was Cage's first composition inspired by Hindu philosophy, composed in a period of reading the works of the Indian art historian and critic Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. In these compositions, Cage expresses his interpretation...

Author: John CageISBN-10: 0300741987ISBN-13: 9790300741987Publisher: Alfred MusicLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2022Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 11.50h x 8.90w x 0.40d

Letters of an avant-garde iconThis selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his...

Letters of an avant-garde iconThis selection of over five hundred letters gives us the life of John Cage with all the intelligence, wit, and inventiveness that made him such an important and groundbreaking composer and performer. The missives range from lengthy reports of his...

An anthology volume which demonstrates the unending playfulness and inventiveness of John Cage's relationship with the piano. The pieces in this volume are newly engraved and each is edited by acclaimed Cage pianist Margaret Leng Tan.This volume offers a treasure of lesser-known works by...

One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries to find a way of writing which comes from ideas, is not about them, but which produces them, he attempts in X to create looser structures in both life and art, to free...