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Tables of Contents for John Cage
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xi
Preface
xiii
Epigraphs
xv
Second Preface
xvii
Introduction
1
4
Notes on Compositions I, 1933--48
5
10
Listening to Music (1938)
15
6
The East in the West (1948)
21
6
A Composer's Confessions (1948)
27
18
Contemporary Music Festivals Are Held in Italy (1949)
45
6
Notes on Composition II, 1950--63
51
12
A Few Ideas About Music and Film (1951)
63
4
Notes on Cunningham Choreography (1954--62)
67
4
Remarks Before David Tudor Recitals (1959, 1956)
71
4
Preface to Indeterminacy (1959)
75
6
Program Notes (1956)
81
2
Three Asides on the Dance (c. 1959)
83
4
Remarks on Theatre Song and Ikon (1961)
87
4
A Movement, A Sound, A Change of Light (1964)
91
2
Notes on Compositions III, 1967--78
93
16
On Nam June Paik's Zen for Film (1962--64) (1968)
109
2
Art and Technology (1969)
111
2
Preface to Notations (1969)
113
2
Political/Social Ends? (1969)
115
2
Foreword to Richard Bunger's The Well-Prepared Piano (1973)
117
4
Prefatory Notes to Henry Cowell's Quartet Romantic and Quartet Euphometric (1974)
121
4
From Contemporary Music Catalogue (C.F. Peters) (1975)
125
2
7 Out of 23 (1977)
127
4
If There Isn't Any, Why Do You Wear Them? (1977)
131
2
Notes on Compositions IV, 1979--86
133
10
Mushrooms (1979)
143
4
Music and Particularly Silence in the Work of Jackson MacLow (1980)
147
6
More on Paik (1982)
153
6
For Don Gillespie (1983)
159
2
Music and Art (1985)
161
4
Writing Through ``Howl'' (1986)
165
12
Tokyo Lecture and Three Mesostics (1986)
177
18
Notes on Compositions V, 1987--92
195
12
Storia dell'Opera (1987)
207
6
Synopses (1988)
213
6
Time (One Autoku) (1988)
219
8
Marshall McLuhan (1989)
227
2
Sports (1989)
229
8
An Autobiographical Statement (1989)
237
12
Europeras 3 & 4 (1990)
249
2
Mirakus: Mirage Verbal (1990)
251
4
Letter to Zurich (1991)
255
2
Macrobiotic Cooking (1991)
257
20
Music Without Horizon Soundscape That Never Stops (1991)
277