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Sixty-two mesostics re Merce Cunningham : voice unaccompanied using microphone

Title
Sixty-two mesostics re Merce Cunningham : voice unaccompanied using microphone / John Cage.
Author
Cage, John.
Publication
New York : Henmar Press ; Sole selling agents, C.F. Peters Corp., c1971.

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Additional Authors
Cunningham, Merce.
Description
A-E, 62 p.; 28 cm.
Uniform Title
Mesostics
Alternative Title
  • Mesostics
  • Mesostics.
Subjects
Note
  • Caption title.
  • Chance composition.
  • Contains no musical notation.
  • "The texts are I ching determined syllable and word mixes from Changes: notes on choreography by Merce Cunningham and from his library. They have been instant-letterset using a gamut of about seven hundred and thirty different types faces or sizes. These type face and size differences may be used to suggest an improvised vocal line ... not following any conventional rule."
  • Publisher's no.: Edition Peters no. 6807.
Call Number
JNF 81-197[Y]
OCLC
NYPG89-C3294
Author
Cage, John.
Title
Sixty-two mesostics re Merce Cunningham : voice unaccompanied using microphone / John Cage.
Imprint
New York : Henmar Press ; Sole selling agents, C.F. Peters Corp., c1971.
Added Author
Cunningham, Merce.
Added Title
Mesostics.
Publisher No.
Edition Peters no. 6807 Henmar Press
Research Call Number
JNF 81-197[Y]
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