Cage, John
Overview
| Works: | 8,146 works in 18,735 publications in 10 languages and 190,210 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Criticism, interpretation, etc Music Poetry Interviews Biographies Discographies Bibliographies Manuscripts History Concrete poetry |
| Roles: | Author, Composer, Performer, Instrumentalist, Narrator, Actor, Conductor, Speaker, Singer, Interviewee, Musician, Illustrator, Arranger, Dedicatee, Other, Creator, Contributor, Honoree, Artist, Conceptor, Editor, zxx, Adapter, Collector, Engraver, Bibliographic antecedent, Photographer, v=v, Designer, Author of introduction, Lyricist, pan, wpr, Vocalist, Recipient, Director, wst, Film editor |
| Classifications: | ML410.C24, 811.508 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
John Cage
- Conversing with Cage by Richard Kostelanetz( )
- Musicage : Cage muses on words, art, music by John Cage( )
- New music at Darmstadt : Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez by Martin Iddon( )
- M : writings '67-'72 by John Cage( )
- Silencing the sounded self : John Cage and the American experimental tradition by Christopher Shultis( )
- Begin again : a biography of John Cage by Kenneth Silverman( Book )
- Writings through John Cage's music, poetry, and art by David W Bernstein( )
- The selected letters of John Cage by John Cage( )
- Experimental music : Cage and beyond by Michael Nyman( Book )
- The Cambridge companion to John Cage by David Nicholls( Book )
- Chance and circumstance : twenty years with Cage and Cunningham by Carolyn Brown( Book )
- John Cage's theatre pieces : notations and performances by William Fetterman( )
- The bride & the bachelors; the heretical courtship in modern art by Calvin Tomkins( Book )
- Where the heart beats : John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the inner life of artists by Kay Larson( Book )
- John Cage and Buddhist ecopoetics by Peter Jaeger( )
- John Cage : composed in America( Book )
- The roaring silence : John Cage, a life by David Revill( Book )
- Notations by John Cage( Book )
- The bride and the bachelors : five masters of the avant garde by Calvin Tomkins( Book )
- The music of John Cage by James Pritchett( Book )
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Most widely held works by
John Cage
Silence : lectures and writings by
John Cage(
Book
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147 editions published between 1960 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 3,539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." -The American Record Guide"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away."
147 editions published between 1960 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 3,539 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." -The American Record Guide"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away."
Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano by
John Cage(
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146 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 2,682 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
TILBURY, John (prepared piano)
146 editions published between 1950 and 2014 in 7 languages and held by 2,682 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
TILBURY, John (prepared piano)
American poetry : the twentieth century(
Book
)
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,350 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens
A year from Monday : new lectures and writings by
John Cage(
Book
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63 editions published between 1963 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lectures, essays, diaries and other writings
63 editions published between 1963 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,047 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lectures, essays, diaries and other writings
X : writings '79-'82 by
John Cage(
)
31 editions published between 1982 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,684 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Annotation
31 editions published between 1982 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,684 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Annotation
Empty words : writings '73-'78 by
John Cage(
Book
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31 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."
31 editions published between 1977 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 1,549 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Writings through James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, Norman O. Brown, and "The Future of Music."
Anarchy by
John Cage(
)
10 editions published between 1988 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""That government governs best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Malatesta, not so much making arguments for anarchism as "brushing information against information," giving the very words new combinations that de-familiarize and re-energize them. Now widely available for the first time, Anarchy marks the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, composer and as a thinker about contemporary society."--Jacket
10 editions published between 1988 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""That government governs best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have." This quote from Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience is one of thirty quotations from which John Cage created Anarchy, a book-length lecture comprising twenty mesostic poems. Composed with the aid of a computer program to simulate the coin toss of the I Ching, Anarchy draws on the writings of many serious anarchists including Emma Goldman, Peter Kropotkin, and Mario Malatesta, not so much making arguments for anarchism as "brushing information against information," giving the very words new combinations that de-familiarize and re-energize them. Now widely available for the first time, Anarchy marks the culmination of Cage's work as a poet, composer and as a thinker about contemporary society."--Jacket
Sonatas & interludes by
John Cage(
)
63 editions published between 1983 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 1,222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
63 editions published between 1983 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 1,222 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Cage and David Tudor : correspondence on interpretation and performance by
Martin Iddon(
)
12 editions published between 2013 and 2015 in English and held by 904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Cage is best known for his indeterminate music, which leaves a significant level of creative decision-making in the hands of the performer. But how much licence did Cage allow? Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence between the composer and pianist David Tudor, one of Cage's most provocative and significant musical collaborators. The book presents their partnership from working together in New York in the early 1950s, through periods on tour in Europe, until the late stages of their work from the 1960s onwards, carried out almost exclusively within the frame of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Tackling the question of how much creative flexibility Tudor was granted, Iddon includes detailed examples of the ways in which Tudor realised Cage's work, especially focusing on Music of Changes to Variations II, to show how composer and pianist influenced one another's methods and styles [Publisher description]
12 editions published between 2013 and 2015 in English and held by 904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
John Cage is best known for his indeterminate music, which leaves a significant level of creative decision-making in the hands of the performer. But how much licence did Cage allow? Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence between the composer and pianist David Tudor, one of Cage's most provocative and significant musical collaborators. The book presents their partnership from working together in New York in the early 1950s, through periods on tour in Europe, until the late stages of their work from the 1960s onwards, carried out almost exclusively within the frame of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Tackling the question of how much creative flexibility Tudor was granted, Iddon includes detailed examples of the ways in which Tudor realised Cage's work, especially focusing on Music of Changes to Variations II, to show how composer and pianist influenced one another's methods and styles [Publisher description]
Virgil Thomson : his life and music by
Kathleen O'Donnell Hoover(
Book
)
17 editions published between 1959 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 885 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
17 editions published between 1959 and 1970 in English and Undetermined and held by 885 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Imaginary landscapes by
John Cage(
)
29 editions published between 1995 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Imaginary Landscape No. 1 for muted piano, cymbal, turntables and frequency recordings / Imaginary Landscape No. 2 f.percussion / Imaginary Landscape No. 3 for percussion / Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios / Imaginary Landscape No. 5 for any recordings / But What About the Noise ... for percussion ensemble
29 editions published between 1995 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 876 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Imaginary Landscape No. 1 for muted piano, cymbal, turntables and frequency recordings / Imaginary Landscape No. 2 f.percussion / Imaginary Landscape No. 3 for percussion / Imaginary Landscape No. 4 for twelve radios / Imaginary Landscape No. 5 for any recordings / But What About the Noise ... for percussion ensemble
John Cage by
Richard Kostelanetz(
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4 editions published in 1970 in English and German and held by 846 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1970 in English and German and held by 846 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition by
John Cage(
)
4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Special edition of the book that revolutionized our understanding of how we make and experience art
4 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 778 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Special edition of the book that revolutionized our understanding of how we make and experience art
Music for prepared piano by
John Cage(
)
16 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
16 editions published between 1999 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Cage/Cunningham : a film by
Elliot Caplan(
Visual
)
26 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Combines archival material and eight years of world tour footage to document the 50 year collaboration between composer John Cage and dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham
26 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 759 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Combines archival material and eight years of world tour footage to document the 50 year collaboration between composer John Cage and dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham
Music of changes by
John Cage(
Recording
)
54 editions published between 1978 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 750 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
54 editions published between 1978 and 2014 in 4 languages and held by 750 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
I-VI by
John Cage(
Book
)
18 editions published between 1990 and 1997 in English and held by 730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Features Cage reading a mesostic (a literary form generated by chance operations) to allow the listener to experience it as delivered; also features a selection from the question-and-answer seminars that conveys the lively flavor of the event
18 editions published between 1990 and 1997 in English and held by 730 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Features Cage reading a mesostic (a literary form generated by chance operations) to allow the listener to experience it as delivered; also features a selection from the question-and-answer seminars that conveys the lively flavor of the event
Liberations; new essays on the humanities in revolution by
John Cage(
Book
)
11 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The 25-year retrospective concert of the music of John Cage by
John Cage(
Recording
)
40 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 694 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958
40 editions published between 1958 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 694 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded at Town Hall, New York City, May 15, 1958
Freeman etudes by
J Cage(
)
14 editions published between 1994 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 647 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 editions published between 1994 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 647 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Cunningham, Merce Other Interviewee Performer Dancer Restager Conductor Director Choreographer Speaker Author
- Tudor, David 1926-1996 Other Interviewee Performer Musician Dedicatee Author Editor Instrumentalist Composer
- Kostelanetz, Richard Other Editor Lyricist Author of introduction Author Interviewer
- Drury, Stephen Conductor Performer Instrumentalist Director
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company Other Producer Performer Artist Dancer
- Rauschenberg, Robert 1925-2008 Set designer Other Performer Artist Interviewee Designer Etcher Author Costume designer Collector
- Tan, Margaret Leng Interviewee Performer Musician Instrumentalist Author Editor
- Iddon, Martin 1975- Author Editor
- Cunningham Dance Foundation Other Publisher Producer Performer
- Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968 Bibliographic antecedent Other Illustrator Author Composer
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Aleatory music American poetry Artistic collaboration Arts Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Avant-garde (Music) Bride stripped bare by her bachelors, even (Duchamp, Marcel) Brown, Carolyn, Cage, John Choreographers Composers Composition (Music) Cunningham, Merce Dancers Duchamp, Marcel, Electronic music Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Essays Ethics Fuller, R. Buckminster--(Richard Buckminster), Gay composers Humanities Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Instrumental music Ives, Charles, Kermode, Frank, Modern dance Music Musical notation Music and literature Music--Computer network resources Music--Philosophy and aesthetics Percussion ensembles Performance art Piano music Political and social views Postmodernism Prepared piano music Rauschenberg, Robert, Sonatas (Piano) Songs (Low voice) with piano Stern, Daniel, Thomson, Virgil, Thoreau, Henry David, Tinguely, Jean, United States Violin music Vocal music White, Hayden V., Zen Buddhism--Influence
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C., J. 1912-1992
C., J. 1912-1992 (John Cage)
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Cage, John Milton
Cage, John Milton 1912-1992
Cage, John Milton, Jr.
Cage, John Milton Jr 1912-1992
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Džons Keidžs
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John Cage American avant-garde composer
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Keidž, Džon
Keidza, Džona
Keidžas
Keidžas Džonas
Keĭdzh, Dzhon
Keĭdzh, Dzhon 1912-1992
Keidžs, Džons 1912-1992
Kejdž, Džon.
Kejdž, Džon 1912-1992
Kēji, Jon
Kēji, Jon 1912-1992
Τζων Κέιτζ Αμερικανός πρωτοπόρος συνθέτης, θεωρητικός της μουσικής, εικαστικός καλλιτέχνης και φιλόσοφος
Τζων Κέιτζ Πειραματιστής συνθέτης και θεωρητικός της μουσικής, φιλόσοφος, ποιητής, εικαστικός καλλιτέχνης, χαράκτης
Джон Кейдж
Джон Кейдж американски композитор авангардист
Джон Кейдж американский композитор, философ, поэт, музыковед, художник
Джон Кейдж американський композитор-авангардист
Кейдж Д.
Кейдж Дж.
Кейдж, Джон
Џон Кејџ
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ג'ון קייג'
ג'ון קייג' מוזיקאי אמריקאי
جان کیج آهنگساز و نویسنده آمریکایی
جون كيج
جون كيج ملحن موسيقى أمريكي
جون كيدج
จอห์น เคจ
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존 케이지
케이지, 존 1912-1992
ケージ, ジョン
ケージ, ジョン 1912-1992
ジョン・ケージ
ジョン・ケージ アメリカ合衆国の作曲家
約翰·凱吉
約翰·凱吉 美国先锋作曲家
约翰·凯奇
约翰·凯奇 美国先锋作曲家
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