Empty Words
1979 book by John Cage
978-0819550323
Empty Words: Writings '73–'78 is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1979 by Wesleyan University Press.
Contents
- "Foreword" (1978)
- "Preface to Lecture on the Weather" (1979)
- "How the Piano Came to be Prepared" (1973)
- "Empty Words" (1974–75)
- "Where Are We Eating? and What Are We Eating? (38 Variations on a Theme by Alison Knowles)" (1975)
- "Series re Morris Graves" (1974)
- "Sixty-One Mesostics Re and Not Re Norman O. Brown" (1979)
- "Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake" (1978)
- "The Future of Music" (1974)
Also included are the following mesostics:
- "Many Happy Returns" (1979)
- "A Long Letter" (1977)
- "Song" (1979)
- "For S. Fort, Dancer" (1979)
- "For William Mc N. Who studied with Ezra Pound" (1979)
- "Wright's Oberlin House Restored by E. Johnson" (1979)
- "'I'm the happiest person I know' (S.W.)" (1975)
See also
- v
- t
- e
John Cage
- Constructions (1939–41)
- Imaginary Landscapes
- No. 1
- No. 2
- No. 3
- No. 4
- No. 5 (1939–52)
- Music for an Aquatic Ballet (1938)
- Living Room Music (1940)
- Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48)
- String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
- Music of Changes (1951)
- 4′33″ (1952)
- 27' 10.554" (1956)
- Variations (1958–67)
- Cheap Imitation (1969)
- HPSCHD (1969)
- Song Books (1970)
- Etudes Australes (1974–75)
- Apartment House 1776 (1976)
- Etudes Boreales (1978)
- Freeman Etudes (1977–90)
- Roaratorio (1979)
- As Slow as Possible (1985/1987)
- But what about the noise... (1986)
- Europeras (1987–91)
- Number Pieces (1987–92)
- Silence (1961)
- A Year from Monday (1968)
- Notations (1969)
- M (1973)
- Empty Words (1979)
- X (1983)
- Crete Cage (mother)
- Xenia Cage (wife)
- Indeterminacy in music
- West Coast School
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts
- Category
This article about an essay or essay collection is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e