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Overview in the two pieces for piano, the lack of bar lines might be the most prominent visual aspect. September 5, 1912 august 12, 1992 was an american composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher. Notations by john cage music visualization, graphic score. Performance practice in the indeterminate works of john cage judy lochhead starting in the late 1950s, john cage composed a number of works which are indeterminate with respect to their performance. In fact, it is in essence a continuation into the 21 st century of the archiving process that cage undertook to preserve 20th century notational forms. Notations is a book that was edited and compiled by american avantgarde composer john cage 19121992 with alison knowles and first. Arguably the greatest musical score ever designed, a pinnacle of graphic notation is by cornelius cardew, entitled treatise 19631967. John cage publishes a book of graphic musical scores.
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