A
ABA form 59
Abe, Tamio 3
abstract art 13,175,228
Abstract Expressionism 175-182,213
academic music 112,221
acceptance, in music 17,42,218,228-229
A Collection of Rocks 154
"A Composer's Confessions" 66
acrostics 150
acupuncture 28
advertising 272
Aeschylus 57
African music, relation to 58,60
Albers, Joseph 50,177-178,185
aleatory 73
alcohol, drinking 30
Alphabet 168
Amacher, Maryanne 82
amateur musicians, playing Cage 226
ambience (see environment)
Americana, attitude towards 40
Amores 59,108
Amsterdam 165
anarchy 68-69,113,266,273,277
Anderson, Edgar 245
anechoic chamber, visits 228-229
Ann Arbor, MI 189,260
Apartment House 1776 34,80,83,85-86,119,120,121,122,234
Apollinaire , Guillaume 45
architecture 4
in music 112,204
Arensberg, Walter 4
Aria 108
with Fontana Mix 108
Arizona 22
art
abstract 173
American attitudes toward 22,208
as life (see life as art)
automatic 173,175
definition of 59
modern (see modern art)
teaching 246
twentieth century 268
visual 173-190
Art Com 155
Art in America 135
Artaud, Antonin 71,104,105,140,194
The Theater and its Double
104
Artists Club 21
artists' interest in music 21
astrology 262
Atlas Australes 87
Atlas Borealis and the Ten Thunderclaps 99
Atlas Eclipticalis 69,114,120,148
atonality 51
attention, paying 20
audience participation 111
audiences 23,81,86,111,119,127-129,236
United States 115
audiotape (see tape music)
avant garde 51,114,115,207,238
A Year From Monday 56
B
Bach, Johann Sebastian 37,43,75,259
Art of Fugue 37,224
Bacchanale 58
Balanchine, George 192
banal, attitude towards the 107-108
Bartók, Bela 5,199
Basho 142-143
bassoon, attitude towards 116
Bauhaus 50,173,274
beautiful, what is 59,211,212
beauty 81
Beethoven, Ludwig van 27,50,210
Behrman, David 67,82,98
bell sounds 63
Bennington College, VT 12
Bernstein, Leonard 114
Berry, Wendell 44
Beverly Hills, CA 214
Bible, the 154-155,230,282
Bicentennial, (USA) 32,81,83,140
Billings, William 85-86
Bird, Bonnie, music for 9,58
Black Mountain College 14,49,54,103,107,180,210,248-250
Bonn, Germany 131
Book of Music, A 64
books, attitude towards 117
Bohemian life (Duchamp) xi
Bolivia, retiring to 19
bookbinding 9
boredom 127,236-237
Boston Symphony Orchestra 83-84,114
Boulder, CO 124-125
Boulez, Pierre 46,51,63,121,200,202
Boy Scouts 2-3
Brackage, Stan 189
Brahms, Johannes 50
Branches 88-90,93,98,165
Brancusi, Constantin 26
Brandeis University, MA 72
Brecht, George 169
Breton, André 173
Brooklyn YMCA, washing walls at 7
Brown, Carolyn 192,197
Brown, Earle 14,105,162,163
Brown, Norman O. 149,229,251
Brun, Herbert 204,228
Buddha 42,53,124,257,264
Buddhism, Zen (see also Oriental philosophy) 6,12,13,16,29,41-42,48,52,54,55,59,
63,66,71,103,124-125,128,141,169,176,177,178,202,211,213,218,224,
229,241,262,265,267
no mind, philosophy of 13,68
Buhlig, Richard 4,37,57
Busoni, Ferruccio 112,198
"Sketch of an Esthetic
of New Music" 112
Busotti, Sylvano 201
C
Cabrillo Music Festival, CA 96
cactus, music from 88,90
cadences 37,51,86
Cage, John
aging 33-34
art, Cage's 94
art, begins painting 4
arthritis 27-28,33
blood tests 28
birthdays 35
bridge, playing 7
cigarette smoking 30
college, drops out of 4
dying, attitude toward 35
ear, none for music 60,63,85
Europe trip, instead of college
3,133
elitist 202
decision to devote himself
to music 4,5
elephants, riding 33
friendships, lost (due to
4'33") 66
happier without music 100
"inventor of genius" 6,58
loft apartment 27
macrobiotic diet 29-30,33,100
marriage (see Xenia)
money, having enough xi,12,16,18,19,239
nonactivity 110
nonsense, in favor of 137,147
old age 33
personal life, turmoil in
42
philosopher, as 19
poisoning 28
poker playing 18
popularity 21-22
puritanical roots 1
oratorical contest, "Other
People Think" 218
radio program, conducts 2-3
research, library, as a job
7,9
retirement 19
rocks, interest in 31-32
telephone, attitude toward
19
texts 94,133-156,
unemployed 11
voting, attitude toward 274
writing music begins 4
Cage, Gustavus Adolphus (John Cage's grandfather) 1
Cage, John Milton Sr. (John Cage's father) 1,2,3,8,18,99,133
submarine, invents 1
space travel inventor 1
radio, invents 2
electrostatic gravity theory
1
Cage, Lucretia Harvey (John Cage' s mother, "Crete") 1,3
marriages 1
supporting 18
Cage, Xenia 59,159
John divorces 12-13,59
John marries 8
John meets 7
John proposes to 7
inheritance 11
plays Cage's music and makes
art 9
Calder, Alexander 232
Campbell, Joseph 12
canon, use of cancrizans 63
Cartridge Music 88,91,119,214,221
CBC 81-82,140
CBS 158
CBS, fan mail 11
chance 15,17,18,31,43,52,53,54,56,60-61,70
74,76,79,82,83,85-89,93-96,107,109,111,
112,123,131-132,134-135,136,137,143,
146,150-152,162,166-170, 180,184,185-187,
195,200,205,210-211,218-221,223,224,229
chance, as distinct from indeterminacy 74,218
change, philosophy of 42,99
Changes and Disappearances (drawings) 186
Changes, Book of (see I Ching)
Char, Rene 202
charts, composing with 17
Chavez, Carlos 39
Toward a New Music 39
chess 11,18,31
Cheap Imitation 79-80
cheating 240
Chicago, IL 22,158-159
Chicago Symphony Orchestra 120
Chicago School of Design 9,12
Chicago School of Design, invitation to join faculty in 9
Child of Tree 88,90,93,98
Childs, Julia 29
China 278
choice in composition 17,40,62-63,93,144
Chopin, Frederic 77
Christ (see Jesus)
Christian gnosticism 53
Christianity 262,263,284
values, turning cheek 10
Church 13
Cincinnatti, OH 184,189
circus 96,167,170
Coca-Cola 59,278,281
Cologne, Germany 192
Columbia University 16
Columbia Workshop 158
Columbus, OH 22
negative reaction to music 22
collage 127,131
comedy vs. tragedy 66
communication, music as 17,41-42,59,120,211,260
competition 240,251-252
composer, as genius 106
composer, as dictator 111-112
composing 74
collaborative 61,75
in order to hear 63
computers 17,34,72-73,75,78,155,219
computer music 75-80,95,163
Concert for Piano and Orchestra 68
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra 63
conceptual art 206,223
concert halls 115,119
concerts, giving 19
conducted music 81,106,130,131,161
conductors 257
conformity 274
consistency, attitude towards 45
content, form as 68
contingency, music of 60
control/non-control 17,74,200-201,214,218,220,221-222,233
Conversations with Marcel Duchamp 35
Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 41,63
Cornell, Joseph 11
Cornell University, NY 273
Corner, Philip 15
Cornish School, Seattle 9,12,58,174
costumes, attitude towards 102
counterculture 50
counterpoint 89
counterpoint, studies 5,57
Cowell, Henry 6-7,58,64,161,199,225
studying with 7
New Musical Resources
39
recommends study with Schoenberg
6-7,57
Credo in Us 12,62
criticism, negative 22,32
reaction to 23
critics 67,85
Cross, Lowell 67
Crown Point Press 33,186-187
cultural changes 24
Cummings, E.E. 45,133,150,251
Cunningham, Merce 14,18,19,22,31,53,62,73,79,80,82,90,
103,104,129,130,141,149,191-198,
201,202,211
Dance Company 19,32-33,44,141,194,201
Czechoslovakian mushroom society 16
D
Dada 12,13,110,174,181-182
Dali, Salvador 183
dance 191-198
dance music, begins 9
Dance/Four Orchestras 96
Dante 39
Davis, CA (see University of California)
death, attitude toward 35,66,69,94,129,194
Debussy, Claude 50,259
de Kooning, William and family 13,54,176-177,181,211
national defense 27
definitions, attitude towards 114
degrees 243,247
Denver , CO 22
Depression 4
Depression, no work during 7
determinacy (see indeterminacy)
Dialogue 195
didactic purpose of art 42,99
Die Welt 280
diet, good and bad 27-30
direction, music without 64,74
discovery, music as 237
discipline, need for 102,112-113,220
divine influences 41,43,215
Dostoevski, Fyodor 38
Double Music 61
Dreiss, Hazel 249
drones 92,97,259
Duchamp, Marcel 9,11,18,24,25,35,40,55,68,73,133,
135,136,149,169,178,180,181,203,219,222,247
Etants Donnés 55,179-180,183
"brings art a musical character"
40
Large Glass 179-180
Musical Erratum 219
Duchamp, Teeny 25,68,169,178-179
Duet for Two Flutes 67
Duets 93
E
Eagle, Swift 119
Eastern philosophy (see Oriental philosophy and Buddhism)
EAT 74
Eckhardt, Meister 25,39,52
ecology xi,22,27-28,41
economics 261-262
Edison, Thomas 238
Edition Ryoan-ji 186
education 264
education, music (see music education)
ego in art 41,42,53,68,214,215,223,229, 235,254,265
electronic media, as the future 117
electronic music xi,98,99,116,119,156,217
Eliot, T.S. 45,133,150
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 33,255
emotion and meaning in music, expressing 50,61,63,65,100,112-113,
126,213, 215,236
employment (see unemployment) 14
Empty Words 83,124-125,127,140-147,194
Encyclopedia Brittanica 209
entertainment 31
environment 245,250,263,275,276,277,278,279,281
environment, and sounds 13,41,54,60,65,82,83,90,96,111,124,158,163,
188,210,212,227-228,234,261,272
as divine influence 41
Erdman, Jean 12,62
Ernst, Max 11,173
Eschig 79
esthetics 207-238,261
Etcetera 81,82,130,164,258
Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras 164
etching 33,94
Etudes Australes 87-88,91,129,165,279
European attitudes to art 22,115,203
European music 60,199,203
Europeras 131-132
examinations 247
experience in life and art 40,42,115,224,235
expression of individual emotions in music (see emotion in music)
extremes, going to xi,212
F
fascism 260
fame and fortune 12,262
familiar, attitude towards the 40
Farber, Viola 197
Feldman, Morton 14,105,162,163,246
jealousy 14-15
Fielding Sixes 93
fifths, (parallel) 37,219
film and wire, early aspirations 10
films (see movies)
First Meeting of the Satie Society 155
Fischinger, Otto
encounters 8,41
writes music for films of
8,40
Fontana Mix 108-109,159
food, good and bad 27-28
foolish, appearing 68-69
Ford, Gerald 277
form 43,68
Forte, Sevilla 58
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts 136
4'33" 65-67,81-82,100,105,188,206,216
fractal concepts in composing 40,65
Frangella, Luis 82
Franklin, Benjamin 140
freedom of choice 40
Freeman Etudes 93,84,99,165,216,237
Fullemann, John 166,167
Fuller, Buckminster xi,41,55,56,136,169,189,240,241-242,
244,247,249,250,259-261,266-267,269,271,272,277-282
Futurists 159
G
gamelan, sound of a (on the toy piano) 65
Gandhi, Mahatma 255,265
Garvey, John 49
gardening 27,33
German philosophy 45,260
German attitude to foreign music, reaction to 49-50,234
Germans 115
Ginsberg, Allen 125
Giotto di Bondone 39
Glashine, Adeline 209
glissando 98
global, philosophy of the 41,44,116,261,280-281
God 74,120,136,149
God, writing music 74
Golden Rule, The 264
Goldfinger (architect) 4
Goldstein, Malcolm 15
Gothic architecture, seeing 3
Gottschalk, Louis M 77
government 212,240,258,275,276,277,281
Graham, Martha 12,191
grades, school 251-252
Graves, Morris 58,174
Grieg, Edward 2,37
Grizzard, George 117-118
Grossman, Gary 75
Guggenheim Museum 190
Guggenheim, Peggy 11,177
H
Haiku 13,106,110,142
Halprin, Anna 196
Handel, George Frederick 90
"Hallelujah chorus"
233
Messiah 234
Happenings 103-105,112,118,196,210
Hare, David 173,232
harmony, studies & attitude towards 5,6,38,51,57,64,65,83,85,87,89,252,259
Harrison, Lou 39,40,41,59,61,98
harpsichord, attitude towards 75
Harvard University, MA 228
Harvey, Margaret ("Aunt Marge") 3
Harvey, Phoebe ("Aunt Phoebe") 2
Hawaii 260-261
Haydn, Franz Joseph 37
H.C.E. (See "Here Comes Everybody")
hearing music as it is written, not 63,74,85,112,227
hearing and seeing, effect of preconceptions on 45
"Here Comes Everybody" 170
hideous, the 59
Higgins, Dick 153
hi-fi 237
Hiller, Lejaren 17,75-77
Himalayas 33
Hinrichsen, Walter, of Peters Corp 21
history, inventing 38,127
history, as repetition 38
Hitler, Adolph 255,264-265
Holm, Hanya 191
holocaust, the 265,280
Homo Ludens 261
Hovna, Avner 246
HPSCHD 17,21,43,75-80,84,233
Huang Po Doctrine of Universal Mind 25,54
Hui-neng 213
Huizinga, Johan 261
Humphrey, Doris 191
Huxley, Aldous 231
Hymns and Variations 99
I
Iawki, Hiroyuki 130
Ibsen, Joyce's love of 38
I Ching 17-18,34,63,64,74,75,76-80,88,94-95, 111,134-135,
138-139,145-146,170,184,186,219,251
the number 64 in 17,75,87,219
ideas, ownership of 99
Illich, Ivan 124,244
Imaginary Landscapes 59,61-62,64,99,157-158,160-161
imagination 212
improvisation 57,60,63,88-91,94,220,222-225
Improvisation 1,2,3,4 93
indeterminacy 60,61,68,73,76,91,94,96,170,195, 197,200,218,220,224
as distinct from chance 74,218
Indian music 41,193,225,259
Indian philosophy, influence of 17,44,45,54,63,66,213
influences 25,199-,258
Inlets 90,93,99,165,224
insects 16
inspiration 74
intention/non-intention 17,24,25,60,63,72,112-113,142,152-153,
170,189-190,196,208,210,216,217,221-222,229,234
interpenetration 228,245,252
intonation, attitude towards 98
inventor of genius, Schoenberg on Cage (see Cage, John) 6
IRCAM 166
Ireland 166-167
Ives, Charles 38,47,77,199,202,212
stretching the ears 39,230
relation to Cage's music 40,53,230
J
Jalowetz, Mrs. 105
Japan 213,260,271,283
Japanese poetry (see Haiku, renga)
Jawlensky 173
jazz 225,257
Jesus Christ 13,53,230,260
Johns, Jasper 110,133-135,174,181-182,184,202-203
Johnson, Bengt Emil 117
Johnston, Ben 78
Joyce, James 25,32,37,38,45,133,165,169,209
Finnegans Wake 25,99,114,137,144,147,148,150-154,166,167,170,203,205,209
Ulysses 209
judgements, value 42
K
Kagel, Mauricio 192
Kalamazoo, MI 124
Kandinsky, Wassily 173,190
Kaprow, Allan 112-113
Kegan philosophy 53
KFWB, Hollywood 2
Kierkegaard, Soren 195
King, Martin Luther 255,265
Klee, Paul 173
Kline, Franz 180
"KNOBS" 78
KNX, Hollywood 2
Kobrin, Ed 95
Kyoto, Japan 124,141,186
L
Labyrinth (film at Montreal World's Fair) 187
language and thought 149
Lankavatra Sutra 42
laws, attitude towards 98
Le Corbusier, Charles E. J. 136
lectures on music 4,19,24,133
Lecture on the Weather 81-82
Lee, Gypsy Rose 11
leisure 31
Lennon, John 29
Lentil Paté, recipe for 30
Leonardo da Vinci 38
libraries 244
life as art 23,32,34,42,71,136,211-212,221,243,253,261
as theater 71
Life 12
lighting 131
likes and dislikes 63,65,67,86,102,111,159,213,219-220,224,231,235-236
listener completes the music 40,236
Listing Through Finnegans Wake 167
lithographs 184-185
Long, Lois, mushroom book 16
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra 120,191
Los Angeles Times, mother and 7
love 59,213
Lucier, Alvin 67,204
Lutoslawski, Witold 199
M
Mac Low, Jackson 21,204-205
Mace, Thomas 41
Maddox, Arthur 79
Magic Square 63
mainstream culture 50
Malevich, Kasimir 173
Mallarme, Stephane 188
Manhattan, living in 15
manifestos 209
Mann, Chris 154
Mao Tse-tung 39,240,262,263-264,266-267,274
Marches 61
Marlowe, Sylvia 75
Marrying Maiden, The 21
masterpieces 207
materials, getting rid of 26,34
mathematical music 57,75-80,87-88,94-95,138-139
McCarthy, Mary 263
McLuhan, Marshall 41,55,99,154,210,217,242,261,265,267,278,283
Mead, Margaret 124,271
measurement 68,70,72
meditation 20
Megatrends 283
melody, attitude towards 38
Men Against the State 248
memory, freedom from 38,88,91,119,209,220,222,224
mesostics 25,149-155,166,168
Mesostics re and not re Merce Cunningham 165
Methodist minister 1
microdurations 76
microtimbral variation 76
microtones 75,88,204
Milan, Italy 108,159
Milarepa 39
Milhaud, Darius 48-49
Miller, Henry 158
Mills College, CA 9,49
mind 41,42,113,229
mind, changing the xi,42-43,99,113,216,221,226,229,237,257,265
mind, freeing the 66,119,235
Mink, Louis 137,166,209
modality, chromatic, in Satie's music 80
modern art 173,210,212
modern music and painting, first exposed to 4
Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo 9,274
Mona Lisa 208
Mondrian, Piet 11,173,180,203
Montreal, Canada 124,187
Morman, Charlotte 206
Mormonism 1
motivic structure 57
movies 30,188-190
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 37-38,43,75,195,259
Dice Game 76-78
Don Giovanni 37,43,44,195
multiculturalism (see pluralism)
multiphonics 34
multiplicity vs. unity (see also pluralism) 37,38,43,51,52,75,110,189,238,248,252,257,273
Mumma, Gordon 67
Muoyce 114,151
Mureau 83,124,137,140,143,151
Museum of Modern Art, NY 121
museums 118
Mushroom Book 136
mushrooms 4,15,16,18,33,45,54,89-90,191,267,282
music
academic 112,221
and dance 191-198
collecting 46
education 239-255
elementary 227
experimental 214,216
buildings 246
publishing 275
theory 57,86,230
without end, beginning, middle
71,73
music is continuous, is everything 44,70
Music of Changes 14,64,74,77,87,91,99,129,219
Music for Carillon 73
musicians, role of 42
Musicircus 84,132,152,226,234
musicircus 60,84
Music Walk (1958) 107
Muzak 231
mysterious, attitude towards 40,137,208
N
Nagoya, Japan 141
Naropa Institute 124,146
nationalism, attitude towards 40,279,281
Nature 245,260,281
nature, imitating 41,230
Nearing, Guy 15
Negyesy, Janos 93
neoclassism 38
neoromanticism 204
Newman, Barnett 176
New Music String Quartet 92,122
New Wave 204,225-226
New York 212,264
move to 11
New York Mycological Society 16
New York Philharmonic 51,114,120
New School, classes at the 7,20,204
composition of Experimental
Music course 20
newspapers 31
Nexus 89
Nietzsche, Friedrich 149
Nirvana 13
Nixon, Richard 263
Nonesuch Records 78
noise (see also sound) 6,26,39,46,51,60,61,65,98,159
traffic 98
non-intention (see intention)
notation 63,73,91,160,190
graphic 83-84,108,123,160,183-184
time bracket (see time bracket
notation)
verbal 70
Notations 136
Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel 184
O
Oahu, HI 261
oboe, music for 92
Occident 63
Oldenburg, Claes 203
Oliveros, Pauline 204
Olivetti Company 284
Olson, Charles 104,210
Olympics, 1984 170
ONCE group 189
Ono, Yoko 29
opera 131-132
organization, or lack of it 60,68,245,259
Oriental philosophy (see also Buddhism) 13,16,25,41-43,53, 59,63,66,107,281
influence on music 17,124,215,217,260,263
originality 254
overdubbing xi
Ozawa, Seiji 83,121
P
pacifism 265-266
Paik, Nam June 188,206
Paris, France 161,166,168
Paris Opera, the 130
Paris trip instead of college 3
Partch, Harry 98
past, the, as non-factual 38,127
Patchen, Kenneth 158
Paz, Octavio 154
PBS 171
percussion music 58,60,61,65,96
percussion orchestra, first 9,41
percussion as a desirable medium 10
percussionists 61
performance of music, attitude to 101-120
performer's role 23,67,68,111
performers who don't want freedom 81
permanence/impermanence 216
Peter's music publishers, contract with 21
PhDs 241
piano, the (see also, prepared piano) 26,116,116
Picabia, Francis 182
Pijoan, Jose 4
pitch, not important in his music 60
pitches, not repeating 57
plants, music from 88-91
plexigrams 184
pluralism 39,41,53,238,257
poetry 25,89
politics 44,87,105,113,243,257,261-267,275,279,285
Pollock, Jackson 11,177
pollution 28
Pomona College, CA 3
drops out 133
Pop Art/music 174,226
population 272-273
Portland, OR 22,173
possessions, attitude toward 26,282
postmodernism 238
Pound, Ezra 45,133,151-153
poverty 272
prepared piano 58,61,62-63,65,67
invention of 58
president, no need for a 274
Prima, Diane di 125
process 54,68,70,109,162,192,217,237
Prout, Ebenezer 57
psychoanalysis 13,59,174
publishers of music 117
Pugliese, Michael 97
purpose/purposeless 72,113,216
purpose of music, examines the 41-42,59,107,215
Q
Quaker meeting, attending a 230
Quartets for Concert Band and Amplified Voices 98
Quasha, George 125
questions, as a way of composing 17,43,85,214,215
quieting the mind, as musical purpose 41
Quiz Show 108
R
radical, striving for the 34,67
radio 62,157-171,181,227
Dutch-Catholic 166
plays 9,158
program, conducts 2-3
Radio Music 161
Rainer, Yvonne 197
Ramakrishna, Sri 226,231
Rauschenberg, Robert 23,40,47,67,104,133-134,174,180,181, 182,184,188,202-203
"white" and "black"
paintings 104,180,188,230
recordings 62,88,115-116,118,132,235,237-238
musical sounds from 9
recording medium, as a compositional tool xi,93,157
Reagan, Ronald (president) 279-280
rehearsals, importance of 80,112,120,132,207
Reich, Steve 208
Reichert, Klaus 154
Reinhardt, Ad 176
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn 47
Renaissance 112-114,116-117
renga 83-84,152
Renga 83-84,119,120,122
repetition, attitude towards 24,38,222-223,233
representational painting 173
responsibility/control of composer 27
Reunion 68
Riegger, Wallingford 7
Richards, M.C. 104,210
Rilke, Rainer Marie 52,174
rhythm as compositional foundation/structure 40,48,52,60,63,65,98
square root method 40
rhythm, attitude towards regular 38,47
Roaratorio 99,150,152,165,168
rock music 225
Roman Catholicism 189
Rosenberg, Harold 176,214
Rosenberg, Jim 154
Rosenberg, Wolf 228
Ross, Nancy Wilson 12
Rossum, Frans van 165
Rozart Mix 72
Ruggles, Carl 57
Ryoanji 92,96-98
Rzewski, Frederic 233
S
Sacramento, CA 22
San Francisco, CA 9,229
sand painting 216
Santa Cruz, CA 229
Santa Monica, CA 4
Sarabhai, Gautham 121-122
Sarabhai, Gita 41,43
Saroyan 169
Satie, Erik 13,37,40,46,47-50,55,79,85,130-131, 161,223
Furniture Music 49
Gymnopedies 55,80
rhythm 48
Socrate 79-80,130
Vexations 47,62,223
Sauguet, Henri 48-49
Schafer, R. Murray 228
Schaeffer, Pierre 161-162,227
Schillinger, Joseph 230
Schirmer's Music publishers 21
Schneider, Alan 117-118
Schneyer, Helen 86
Schoenberg, Arnold 4-8,38,40,46,47,49,77,100,178,199,201,207,222,246
as teacher 4,5,6,40,65,178,193,246
appearance 5
attending his classes 5
mission in teaching 5
price for lessons 4
regard for Cage's work 5-6
study with 6,8,51,57,59,191,202,215
worshipped like a god 5
Schoenberg's wall 5
Schoning, Klaus 114,165-166
Schreyer, Galka 4
Schuller, Gunther 184
Schuman, William 77
Schwitters, Kurt 182,227
Score With Parts 82
Seattle, WA 9,174
Second Construction 61
Second Hand 80
Selavy, Rrose (Marcel Duchamp) 169
self expression (see emotion)
sequences, attitude toward 227,233
serial techniques, use of 40,57
twelve-tone music 5,38,57,107
twenty-five-tone row 57
Seven Day Diary 186
Shakespeare, WIlliam 13,247,282
sight-reading 2
silence 51,60,66-67,85,86,89,110,141,188-189,228,229,230,265
as a part of row structure
57
Silence 13,48,59,89,117,218
"silent" piece (see 4'33")
Sixteen Dances 63
Sixth Avenue, NY 26,196
social harmony xi,87,122,210
social aspect of art 40,41,74,77,94,111,121,125,257-284
society as impediment 23,120,121,125,127,206,242
Society of Authors 153
solfége 227
Sonatas and Interludes (1948) 62-63,65,98,161
Song Books 84,102
sound 39,41,60,110
Sounday 165
sound effects 168
sounds (see also noise) 27,42,58,61,126,128,188,222,227-228,230-235
locations of, interest in
97
of refrigerator 231-232
of traffic 98,231
not enslaved 232-234
relationships of 39,79,200-201,210-211,228,236
Sounds of Venice 107
South German Radio 166
spatial music 232
Speech (1955) 161
spirit world, of sounds 58
square root rhythms 40,65,192
star maps 87-88
Stein, Gertrude 37,45,57,133,150,153
Steinbeck, John 12
Stockhausen, Karlheinz 109,200-201,221
stones, interest in 31
Stony Point, NY 15,18,82,84
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra 82
Stratos, Dimitrios 165
Stravinsky 4-5,6,8,47,68,192,199,207,237,260
aversion to his music 8
conversation with 8
L'Histoire du Soldat,
performs in 8
Poetics of Music 260
Stravinsky and Schoenberg 7-9
String Quartet in Four Parts 63,161
structure in music 40,51,64,68,70,217
Suite for Toy Piano 64-65
Sultan, Grete 27,87,91,165
Sumison, Calvin 184,233
superficial work, his own 34
superimposing music 34
Surrealism 173-175
Suzuki, Daisetz 13,16,29,42,52,53,54,107,202,211,229,265
symbols 233
symmetry 48
symphony orchestras 117,120
syntax, language without 137,149,152
Synthesis 139
synthesizers 88
T
Takemitsu, Toru 131
tape music 161-171,184,217
tape medium, early desire to work with 10,161-162
taste 144
taste, freeing from one's 64,88,171,222,224
Taylor, Davidson 158
teaching, attitude towards 18,20,248,254
technology 262,273,282,284
television 31,171,227
tempo, subjected to chance 64
Tenney, James 15
Thatcher, Margaret 279
theater 101-113,117-119,127-128,194-197
theater, defined 101
theater, life as 71-72,103,261
thematic transformations 57
Themes & Variations 152
theory, music 57,86,230
Theater Piece 107-109,220
Three Dances 64
Third Construction 61
Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras 123,132,185
Thirty Pieces for String Quartet 123
34'46.776" for 2 Pianists 67,108
Thomson, Virgil 46,161
Thoreau, Henry David 32,33,35,44,45,53,55,81-84,137,140,
143,145,147,180,185,240,248,251,255, 258,265,272,277,283
"Civil Disobedience" 248,258,276
Journal 82-84,125,136,137-147,151,205,
Walden 83
thunder, as compositional resource 99
time (see also rhythm) 60,69,73
time bracket notation 104,123
Time-Life 59
Tobey, Mark 58,173,174-175,177,180-182,186, 187
Tokyo, Japan 130
tonality 51,60,65
Tone Roads 15
Toronto, Canada 68
Tower of Babel 41
Town Hall, NY 163
tragedy vs. comedy 66
transition 57,133
travel, attitude towards 24,31
Tudor, David 14,24,64,67,82,87,88,98,103,104,105 106,116,
121,129,160,162,192,201, 202,257,266
tunes, attitude towards familiar 40
TV (See television)
Twelve Haikus 83
U
understanding art 115,136-137,208,212,235
understanding through action 53
understanding the unknown 113
underwater ballet at UCLA, writes music for 9
unemployment 14,61,244,278,282-284
UNESCO 246
unity vs. multiplicity (see multiplicity) 38,43,258
University of California 18,191
University of California, Davis 49,79
University of California, Los Angeles 9
University of Cincinnatti 18,44,75,184
University of Hawaii 260
University of Illinois 18,49,75,79,253,269
University of Kentucky 44
University of Saskatchewan 249
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 111
universities, as art enclaves 115
universities, ideal 244,248,255
universities, as prisons 243
utilities, philosophy of 274-276
V
value 247
VanDerBeek, Stan 189
Varèse, Edgard 51,252
variation, continuous 38
Variations 74,110
Variations I 110
Variations II 110
Variations III 69-70,110-111
Variations IV 69,84,106
Variations V 164
Variations VI 106
Variations VII 74
Vassar College, NY 66
Venue de Milo 34,167
vibrato, attitude towards 131
Vietnam 263
violin, possibilities of the 92
Virginia 73
virtuoso playing 2
Vischer, Antoinette 75
visual arts 173-190
voice, writing for 92
Volkswagen bus 19
W
Waka 83
Walden 32
Waldman, Anne 125
Walker Art Center 136
war, serving in 10
war 10,266-267
Warhol, Andy xi,48
water, clean 28
Water Music 90,107
Water Walk 90,107,109
Watt, Jay 250
Webern, Anton 46,51,148
Symphony 130
Weiss, Adolf 4,7,57-58,101
Weiss, Paul 66
WELL 155
Wesleyan University, CT 18,110,117,204,247
West German Radio 166
Weston, Alice 184
Whitney Gallery, NY 176
Wilderness Society 277
Willard Gallery, NY 174-175
Williams, Paul 162
Williams Mix 77,162-164,167
WINS, NY 161
Winter, Julie 262
Winter Music 77
Wittgenstein 10,226
Wolff, Christian 10,14,64,105,130,162,163
Woodstock, NY 82
Woodward, Roger 129
word processor 34
words, working with 25
work and life, philosophy of 19,31
world music 7
Writing Through Finnegans Wake (see also Joyce) 114,165-166
World War II 10,59
X-Z
Yale University, CT 66
Yamamoto, Shizuko 29
yogi 52
Young, LaMonte 74,203-204
Zen (see Buddhism)
Zen and humor 13
zero 208-209
0'00" 69,193
Zukovsky, Paul 91,93,94-95,129,165,237
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