virtual encyclopedia of piano timbres,graphic

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	• Concert for piano and orchestra (Edition Peters) John Cage s.n, 1960 average customer review:based on 1 review
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virtual encyclopedia of piano timbres,graphic

by all means if you are a lover of the graphic sign, graphic signifier, musical notation, this was the first large work of the American avant-garde that virtually contains any and all graphic notation,schemes/means,agendas,approaches,excursis that the avant-garde came to utilize, I can only think ofthe late Cornelius Cardew and Sylvano Bussoti whose work even approaches the conceptual depth(s) and impeccable graphic workmanship as Cage's "Concert. . . ", This work can be played as a solo for piano or simultaneously with the other various nefarious "Solos For. . . " various instruments, each of those works are played as a self-contained piece with no direct coordination with this work, you need not even start together or inhabit the same identical performance space for a legitimate reading of the work.
The graphics here utilizes all kinds of "processes",'pathways'"chemins" like following a circle of tones,going up then turning South, then North,Adorno referred to this work as a kind of accounting system of shuffling the deck,deeply engaged in inventing music as one goes along. It is not an imporvisatory work,however if you are a practicing avant-garde improvisor it certainly helps.Other means here are to/and or to simply follow traditional two staff system(s)Cage provides of beamless black points that can quickly resemble something Cy Twombly would have done with a construction pencil or crayons. You have what Cage referred to as "vertical arpeggiations,where blocks of tones are "arpeggiated-sized", sometimes pages are presented much like fragments incomplete, (well what is complete and not is always open to question in this work,in fact the entire work is conceptual incomplete intentionally), So you simply work your way through the graphics completely ignoring whatever maybe happening around you. I;ve heard Frederic Rzewski perform the "Concert . . . " with other players playing the "Solos For. . ." and Rzewski simply was business,self-engaged,focused like like a naturalist tending his garden of timbres.The score comes nicely presented in a Box 11 X 17 inch cardstock, wonderfully reproduced.

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