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Book by John Cage

Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961.

Contents

The contents of the book is as follows:

• "Foreword" (1961)
• "Manifesto" (1952)
• "The Future of Music: Credo" (1937)
• "Experimental Music" (1957)
• "Experimental Music: Doctrine" (1955)
• "Composition as Process" (1958), essay in three parts:
  • "Changes"
  • "Indeterminacy"
  • "Communication"
• "Composition" (1952–1957), essay in two parts:
• "Forerunners of Modern Music" (1949)
• "History of Experimental Music in the United States" (1959)
• "Erik Satie" (1958)
• "Edgar Varèse" (1958)
• "Four Statements on the Dance" (1939–1957)
  • "Goal: New Music, New Dance" (1939)
  • "Grace and Clarity" (1944)
  • "In This Day..." (1956)
  • "2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance" (1957)
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