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Music studies composition, performance, theory, and cultural impact of sound.
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A biography of W. S. Gilbert, the Victorian dramatist and librettist whose comic operas gave the language the…
John Cage's 1950 string quartet maps the four seasons and their forces onto four movements, one of his…
John Cage's 1948 Suite for Toy Piano made a child's instrument a legitimate voice for serious concert music.
This illustrated catalogue surveys John Cage's published books, scores, records, and printed ephemera as carriers of his ideas.
John Cage's Diary records daily life and thought, shaped by Zen attention to the ordinary present moment.
Soundays is John Cage's 1978 radio event treating a whole day as continuous sound.
Cage's piano works of 1935-48 trace the invention of the prepared piano and culminate in the celebrated Sonatas…
John Cage's Aria is a graphic-score vocal work letting a singer move through many contrasting styles.
John Cage's Roaratorio translates Joyce's Finnegans Wake into a layered sonic circus of words, places, and Irish music.
John Cage discusses his life and ideas in conversation with Joan Retallack.
John Cage's Silence collects two decades of lectures and writings that reinvent prose through rhythm and chance.
John Cage's Notations is an anthology of composers' handwritten musical manuscripts, reproduced as a portrait of twentieth-century music.
A landmark 1967 collection of lectures, diaries, and essays from John Cage's most experimental decade.
Gadamer argues that Bach's Weimar years constitute a fusion of horizons between Lutheran tradition and emerging musical language.
Baron d'Holbach defends modern opera against nostalgic criticism in a satirical letter to an older lady.
