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John Cage's Theatre Pieces Notations and Performances

Introductory material on Cage's basic compositional concerns from the mid-1930s through the early 1950s place the theatre pieces in an aesthetic and historical context. The central chapters discuss the theatre pieces in groups of variations, including Water Music, Music Walk, 4' 33", Theatre Piece, Musicircus, Song Books, and europeras 1 & 2. Cage's work as a performer is also discussed. The primary topics of investigation are chance procedures in composition, notation indeterminate of its performance, structure, simultaneity, and the relationship between the score and performance.

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  • "Introductory material on Cage's basic compositional concerns from the mid-1930s through the early 1950s place the theatre pieces in an aesthetic and historical context. The central chapters discuss the theatre pieces in groups of variations, including Water Music, Music Walk, 4' 33", Theatre Piece, Musicircus, Song Books, and europeras 1 & 2. Cage's work as a performer is also discussed. The primary topics of investigation are chance procedures in composition, notation indeterminate of its performance, structure, simultaneity, and the relationship between the score and performance."@en
  • "Much of the information in this study comes from previously undocumented material discovered among the unpublished scores and notes of Cage and his frequent collaborator David Tudor, as well as author's interviews with several individuals closely associated with Cage's work, including Cage, Tudor, Merce Cunningham, Bonnie Bird, Mary Caroline Richards, and Ellsworth Snyder."@en
  • "The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition there is a blurring of the distinctions between music, dance, literature, art and everyday life. Here, William Fetterman examines the majority of those compositions by Cage which are audial as well as visual in content, beginning with his first work in this genre in 1952, and continuing through 1992. Much of the information in this study."@en
  • "The experimental composer John Cage is most known for his works for percussion, prepared piano, and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in twentieth century theatre. In Cage's work in theatre composition, there is a blurring of the distinctions between music, dance, literature, art and everyday life. This dissertation examines those compositions by Cage which are audial as well as visual in content, beginning with his first work in this genre in 1952, and continuing through the late 1980s."@en

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  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Dissertations, Academic"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "John Cage's Theatre Pieces Notations and Performances"@en
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces : nations and performances"
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces : notations and performance"
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  • "John Cage's theatre pieces : notations and performances"@en
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces : notations and performances"
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces Notations and performances"@en
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces: Notations and performances"@en
  • "John Cage's Theatre pieces : notations and performances"
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces notations and performances"@en
  • "John Cage's theatre pieces notations and performances"

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