[silence] Cage's calligraphic scores

[kkrka kr]

Thanks! I didn't know about Harrison's fonts, I'll try to look into that.

On Dec 16, 2007 3:39 PM, <kraiggrady@anaphoria.com> wrote:

> Lou Harrison was quite into Calligraphy ( i understand there was
> particular mexican turn of the century font he attempted to emulate) that i
> would imagine might be the source of this. but i am guessing, 9but there has
> to be room for guessing somewhere in the world)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* kkrka kr [mailto:haajg5@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 16, 2007 06:54 AM
> *To:* silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
> *Subject:* [silence] Cage's calligraphic scores
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for information on Cage's calligraphic scores. More
> specifically, I'd like to know when and why did he start doing these, and
> when and why did he stop. So far, I found absolutely no information on this
> in any of the books I checked. These include the following -
>
> - James Pritchett's "The Music of John Cage"
> - Richard Kostelanetz's "Conversing with Cage"
> - David Nicholls' "The Cambridge Companion to Cage"
> and Cage's own "Silence".
>
> From the scores I have, I can surmize that he probably started doing
> calligraphic ones in 1940s, perhaps as early as 1942 (the "The Wonderful
> Widow of Eighteen Springs" score I have is calligraphic, although the ones
> for early prepared piano works are not). The 1969 Cheap Imitation score
> seems to be calligraphic (I don't have it, but there's a scan on the Net -
> see http://www.ubu.com/concept/images/cage_cheap_02.jpg ), as are the 1970
> Song Books, but the bits I saw from the scores of Etudes Australes (1974),
> Freeman Etudes (1977), Cheap Imitation violin transcription (1977) and time
> bracket pieces are not calligraphic.
>
> I'll be very grateful for any details on this topic, as well as any
> sources (page numbers in books, dissertations, articles..) that have them.
> The only possible clue I could find (accidentally, while searching
> books.google.com) is in a little biographical article on Mark Tobey in
> "The Saints of Modern Art: The Ascetic Ideal in Contemporary Painting" by
> Charles A. Riley. It mentions a Chinese student, Teng Kuei, who studied at
> the Cornish School when Cage was there, and introduced Tobey to Chinese
> calligraphy - could he do the same for Cage?
>
>
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