Cage J. Silence. Lectures and Writings

Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. — 302 p.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.Foreword
Manifesto
The Fulure of Music: Creda
Experimental Music
Experimental Musie: Doctrine
Composition as Process
Composition
Forerunners of Modem Music
Hislory of Experimental Music in the United States
Erik Salle
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 Rawchenberg, Artist, and His Work
Lecture on Nothing
Lecture on Something
45' for a Speaker
Where Are We Going? and What Are We Doing?
Indetenninacy
Music Lovers' Field Companion