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X: Writings ’79–’82 is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1983. The book includes mesostics on the names of various people.
15. Sept. 1983 · X: Writings '79–'82. Paperback – September 15, 1983. 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 "my writing from my intentions."
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"X" is the twenty-fourth novel in the "Alphabet" series of mystery novels by Sue Grafton. It features Kinsey Millhone, a private detective based in Santa Teresa, California, a fictional version of Santa Barbara, California. The novel, set in the late 1980s, finds Kinsey pursuing a sociopathic serial killer.
Books. X: Writings '79-'82. John Cage. Wesleyan University Press, 1983 - Art - 187 pages. One of a series of experimental texts in which Cage tries "to find a way of writing which comes...
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Music of Changes was the second work Cage composed to be fully indeterminate in some sense (the first is Imaginary Landscape No. 4, completed in April 1951, and the third movement of Concerto for prepared piano also used chance), and the first instrumental work that uses chance throughout. He was still using magic square-like charts to introduce ch...
Music of Changes comprises four "books" of music. Cage used a heavily modified version of his chart system (previously used in Concerto for prepared piano). Every chart for Music of Changes is 8 by 8 cells, to facilitate working with the I Ching which has a total of 64 hexagrams. The I Ching is first consulted about which sound event to choose from...
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1. Edition Peters6256-6259 (books 1–4). (c) 1961 Henmar Press. This is a facsimile of Cage's original, handwritten score. Each book is published separately. 2. Kostelanetz, Richard. 2003. Conversing with Cage, 2nd edition. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-93792-2. 3. Pritchett, James. 1988. "From Choice to Chance: John Cage's Concerto for Prepared Piano." Perspectives of New Music26, no. 1 (Fall): 50–81. 4. Pritchett, James. 1993. The Music of John Cage. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-...
Cage, John. 1961a. "To Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music of Changes and Imaginary Landscape No. 4" (1952). In his Silence: Lectures and Writings, 57–59. Middletown, Connecticut: Wes...Cage, John. 1961b. "Composition as Process I: Changes" (1958 Darmstadt lecture). In his Silence: Lectures and Writings, 18–34. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press.Pritchett, James, and Laura Kuhn. 2001. "John Cage", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, (subscription access).Song, Sun-Ju. 2008. Music Analysis and the Avant-Garde Compositions of Post–World War II: Four Case Studies. 2 vols. Ph.D. diss. Nathan, Queensland: Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.Music of Changes data sheet and discographyat the John Cage database"1951 and Cage'sMusic of Changes", La Folia: Online Music ReviewAlbum notes for Joseph Kubera's recording of Music of Changes, by John HolzaepfelEnglisch Ausgabe von John Cage (Autor), Kyle Gann (Künstler) 4,6 147 Sternebewertungen. Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen. 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 which ...
Other Wesleyan University Pre •• books by Jobn Cage A Year from Monday: New Le<tUT'f!$ and Writings M: Writings '67-'72 Empty Words: Writings '73-'78 X: Writings '79-'82 MUSICAGE: CAGE MUSES an Words· Art· Music I-VI About the Author His teacher, Arnold Schoenberg, said John Cage was "not a composer but an inventor of genius." Composer ...
