[silence] silence Digest, Vol 67, Issue 15

Sun Dec 16 22:26:11 EST 2007

Hi Caleb,

I know the term 'Graphic Notation' is used frequently when talking about scores that are written that include text and/or symbols. Perhaps a search including those terms might turn up some more material.
>From memory the book below by William Fetterman had some good stuff in it.

Title:
John Cage's theatre pieces : notations and performances / by William Fetterman. 

Author:

Fetterman, William.  
Publication: Netherlands : Harwood Academic, c1996.

Title:
John Cage / edited by Richard Kostelanetz. 

Publication:
New York : Praeger, [1970] 

All the best,
Rebecca Cunningham curator/sound and performance artist 18 Jenkinson St. Indooroopilly, QLD 4068 AUSTRALIA e: beccunningham@hotmail.com p: +61 418 252 879 

> From: silence-request@list.mail.virginia.edu> Subject: silence Digest, Vol 67, Issue 15> To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:03:16 -0500> > Send silence mailing list submissions to> silence@list.mail.virginia.edu> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> https://list.mail.virginia.edu/mailman/listinfo/silence> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to> silence-request@list.mail.virginia.edu> > You can reach the person managing the list at> silence-owner@list.mail.virginia.edu> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific> than "Re: Contents of silence digest..."> > > Today's Topics:> > 1. Re: Cage's calligraphic scores (Caleb Deupree)> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > Message: 1> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:22:40 -0700> From: Caleb Deupree <ctdeupree@sbcglobal.net>> Subject: Re: [silence] Cage's calligraphic scores> To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu> Message-ID: <46DFE45E-1B12-4EEA-B7F2-EF21400D86E9@sbcglobal.net>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes> > I'm not sure what you mean by "calligraphic." Many of Cage's scores > are hand-written, with the degree of readability being variable. > Sometimes the hand-written notation was intended to express some > performance peculiarity, and sometimes I think it was just hand- > written. I don't see much difference in the hand-written quality of > the scores between Cheap Imitation and, say, The Perilous Night, from > 1944.> > Kathan Brown's book on Cage's visual art contains some interesting > background. She points out that Cage was engaged in painting prior to > his meeting with Schoenberg in 1934, and that he lectured on art and > music during the depression. All of the early scores that I have are > hand written, even ones that were later typeset. He had no publisher > until his relationship with Edition Peters, which couldn't have > happened too early. So, since he had a documented interest in > painting and no affordable access to typesetting, it was probably a > necessary step to create his scores by hand. But, as Brown also > points out, he also recognized that the scores were a means to an end, > so when he started creating etchings, prints and other visual > materials as specific works (in 1977), he was an established composer, > and Peters probably typeset any of his new scores that he wanted.> > On Dec 16, 2007, at 4:54 AM, kkrka kr wrote:> > > 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?> > ---> Caleb Deupree> ctdeupree@sbcglobal.net> http://classicaldrone.blogspot.com> > > > End of silence Digest, Vol 67, Issue 15> ***************************************
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