附註:Foreword -- Manifesto -- The future of music: Credo -- Experimental music -- Experimental music: Doctrine -- Composition as process. I. Changes ; II. Indeterminacy ; III. Communication -- Composition. To describe the process of composition used in music of changes and imaginary landscape no. 4 ; To describe the process of composition used in music for piano 21-52 -- Forerunners of modern music -- History of experimental music in the United States -- Erik Satie -- Edgard Varèse -- 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 Rauschenberg, artist, and his work -- Lecture on nothing -- Lecture on something -- 45' for a speaker -- Where are we going? and What are we doing? -- Indeterminacy -- Music lovers' field companion.
摘要: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 produces them."" Often these writings include mesostics and essays created by subjecting the work of other writers to chance procedures using the I Ching (what Cage called ""writing through"").
