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Abstract Expressionism, 110 Barron, Bebe, 209 Adams, John, 245 Barron, Louis, 209 John’s Book of Alleged Dances, 245 Basho, 52 Adams, John Luther, 244, 247, 258 Baudelaire, Charles, 19 Clouds of Forgetting. Clouds of Unknowing, Bauhaus, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 261 247 Bayer, Herbert, 23 Dream in White on White, 247 Beauvais cathedral, 21 Earth and the Great Weather, 247 Beckett, Samuel, 266 In the White Silence, 247 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 21, 22, 26, 28, 46, 52, Strange and Sacred Noise, 247 70, 76, 107, 108, 164, 187, 210, 215, 237, Aeschylus, 262 249 Africa, 78 Piano Sonata in f minor, op. 57 Alaska, 96 “Appassionata”, 164 Albers, Anni, 25 Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”, 107 Albers, Josef, 22, 25 Symphony No. 7, 249 America, United States of, ix, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 13, Behrman, David, 162, 265 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 33, 39, Bell Laboratories, 160, 161, 164 40, 42, 66, 90, 92, 106, 128, 134, 137, Bennington School, VT, 44, 267 146, 162, 184, 215, 216, 217, 218, 228, Benton, Thomas Hart, 21 239, 243, 252, 258 Berg, Alban, 34 Bicentennial, 137 Berio, Luciano, 106, 249 Civil War, 5 Sinfonia, 249 NASA, 164 Berlin, Germany, 22 National Institute of Arts and Letters, 26, Bernstein, David, 262 101 Beyer, Johanna, 69 U. S. Navy, 11 Bird, Bonnie, 152, 153, 157, 265 Amirkhanian, Charles, 215 Black Mountain College, NC, 25, 26, 55, 105, Amsterdam, Holland, 40 151, 161, 174, 208, 265 Anderson, Beth, 249, 254–255 Blake, William, 173 Joan, 254–255 “Blue Four,” The, 25 Swales, 249 Blyth, Reginald Horace, 52, 53 Ann Arbor, MI, 5 Haiku,52 Antin, Mary, 266 Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics, Appalachian mountains, 4 52 Ardevol,´ Jose, 3 Bolcom, William, 249 Preludio a, 11,3 Bolivia, 214 Arditti Quartet, 240 Boston, MA, 109 Arensberg, Walter, 24, 262 Boulanger, Nadia, 26 Artaud, Antonin, 170–172, 265 Boulez, Pierre, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 39, 87, Le theater et son double, 171, 265 94, 101, 105, 169, 170, 172, 174, 186, Ashbery, James, 266 210–211, 230, 264, 266 Asia, ix, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 49, 50, 51, 52, Musical works 53, 58, 59, 81, 87, 89, 101, 110, 186, Le visage nuptial, 211 249 Livre pour quatour, 186 Avalokita, 98 Polyphonie X, 186, 211 Second Piano Sonata, 31, 169, 170, 172, 174 Bach, J. S., 8, 21, 22, 36, 97 Structures, 30, 186, 210, 211 The Art of Fugue,36 Third Piano Sonata, 33 Baden-Baden, Germany, 31 Lectures and writings Babbitt, Milton, 163, 243 “Alea”, 35, 211 [277] Bali, 58 “Eventuellement ...”, 3 0

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Boulez, Pierre (cont.) Bacchanale, 77–78, 79, 152, 157, 264 “Propositions”, 170 Birdcage (with Hans G. Helms), 33 “Schoenberg est mort”, 35 Black Mountain Piece, 50, 111, 151–152, 159, The Boulez–Cage Correspondence,87 167, 208 BoyScouts, 7, 13 Branches, 135 Brant, Henry, 9, 252 Cartridge Music, 106 Brazil, 165 Cheap Imitation, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 140, Breuer, Marcel, 23 144, 223 British Columbia, Canada, 162 Child of Tree, 134, 139, 141, 222 Brooks, William, 265 Composition for Three Voices,64 Brown, Carolyn, 265 Concert for Piano and Orchestra, 34, 105, 107, Brown, Earle, 34, 102, 103, 105, 108, 176, 263 111, 220–221, 221, 223, 235 December 1952, 102, 108 Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra, Four Systems, 176 102, 172, 193–199, 201–203, 207, 220, Brown, Merton, 167 229, 266 Triple Music [with John Cage and Lou CredoinUs, 44, 76, 90, 215, 216, 217, 248, Harrison], 167 249, 250 Brown, Norman O., 89, 130 Dance/4Orchestras, 137–138 Bruce, Neely, 252, 265 Daughters of The Lonesome Isle, 79, 265 CONVERGENCE, 252 Double Music [with Lou Harrison], 77, 154, Furniture Music in the Form of Fifty Rag Licks, 155, 159, 167, 220 252 Dream, 245 Short Sentences, 252 ear for EAR, 135 Trio for Bands, 252 Etcetera, 134, 221 Brussels, Belgium, 33, 34 Etcetera,2/4Orchestras, 134, 221 Brussels Worlds Fair, 33 Etudes Australes, 139–140, 221, 222 Budapest, Hungary, 24 Etudes Boreales, 140, 221, 222 Buddhism, 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58, 87, 96, 97 Europeras, 90, 232, 235, 236, 237, 238, 267 Buenos Aires, Argentina, 39 Europeras1&2, 232, 236 Buffalo, NY, 242 Europeras3&4, 236 Buhlig, Richard, 15, 24, 63 Europera 5, 236, 259 Busoni, Ferruccio, 164, 184 Experiences No. 2,68 Sonatina No. 2, 164 Extended Lullaby, 143 First Construction (in Metal), 3, 14, 28, 70, Cage, Adolphus (great grandfather), 5 71–74, 154, 187, 216, 229, 246, 267 Cage, John (ancestor), 4 Five Songs, 6, 68–69 Cage, John Milton, Sr. (father), 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, Fontana Mix, 106 12, 13, 14, 20 Forever and Sunsmell, 76–77, 265 Cage, John Milton, Jr. For MC and DT, 103 Musical works Four, 240 0 00 (4 33; No. 2), 106, 107, 132, 232, 233 Four 3, 143 4 33, 50, 80, 87, 102, 103, 105–106, 107, Fourteen, 143 174–175, 228, 233, 244, 265 Four Walls,80 26 1.1499 forastringplayer, 106, 264 Freeman Etudes, 115, 140, 141, 221, 222, 231, 27 10.554 for a percussionist, 107 236 31 57.9864 for a pianist, 32, 106, 262 Haikai, 42, 133–134 34 46.776 for a pianist, 31, 106, 175, 262, HPSCHD, 90, 106, 108, 130–131, 132, 133, 264 135, 136, 138, 140, 163–165 49 Waltzes for the 5 Boroughs, 134 Hymnkus, 134, 259 1O1, 143 Hymns and Variations, 137 A Book of Music,80 Imaginary Landscape No. 1, 69, 76, 78, 152, A Dip in the Lake, 134 153, 215 Amores, 3, 24, 70, 77, 79, 218 Imaginary Landscape No. 2, 75–76, 248 Apartment House, 1776, 137 Imaginary Landscape No. 3, 3, 75, 76, 218 Aria, 132 Imaginary Landscape No. 4, 57, 76, 103, 106, Assemblage [with Gordon Mumma and David 229, 230, 248, 249, 250, 259, 267 Tudor], 165 Imaginary Landscape No. 5, 103, 208, 265 Atlas Eclipticalis, 137, 139, 161, 266 In a Landscape, 245, 265

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Indeterminacy, 33, 261, 264 Some of “The Harmony of Maine”, 137 Inlets, 134, 143, 222, 233 Sonata for Clarinet, 24, 63–65 In the Name of the Holocaust, 79, 217 Sonata for Two Voices, 64 Landrover [with Gordon Mumma and David Sonatas and Interludes, 28, 30, 31, 34, 41, Tudor], 165 80–84, 199, 211, 220, 228, 245, 264, 266 Les Chants de Maldoror Pulveris´es par Song Books, 131, 132, 133, 136, 137, 139, 140, l’Assistance Mˆeme, 217–218 143, 144, 217 Litany for the Whale, 135 Sonnekus2, 138 Living Room Music, 14, 15, 76 Sounds of Venice, 106 Marriage at the Eiffel Tower [with Henry Speech 1955, 106 Cowell and George McKay], 153, 159, Spontaneous Earth, 79, 154, 156 165 String Quartet in Four Parts, 30, 42, 87, 102, Metamorphosis, 67–68, 69 186, 189–193, 201, 244, 245, 246, 266 Mirakus2, 138 Suite for Toy Piano, 246 Music for..., 135, 138, 142, 166–167 Theatre Piece, 107 Music for Carillon No. 1, 103, 175 The Perilous Night, 79–80, 81 Music for Carillon No. 5, 133 The Seasons, 26, 42, 87, 186, 187–189, 266 Music for Piano, 103, 104, 129, 175, 176, 224 “The Ten Thousand Things”, 31, 87, 106, 107, Music for Piano 4, 224 264 Music for “The Marrying Maiden”, 106 The Unavailable Memory of, 79, 81, 154 Musicircus, 108, 129, 132, 221 The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, Music of Changes, 30, 31, 33, 35, 50, 87, 102, 68 129, 130, 172, 173–174, 175, 186, Third Construction, 75–76, 216 203–208, 209, 211, 229, 230, 231, 235, Thirteen Harmonies, 137 266 Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras, 141 Music Walk, 106 Thirty Pieces for String Quartet, 135, 141 Mysterious Adventure,79 Three, 143 Nocturne, 245, 246 Three Dances, 80, 188 One9,42 Three Songs, 15, 63, 262 Ophelia, 265 Tossed as it is Untroubled, 79, 81, 154 Our Spring Will Come, 217 Totem Ancestor, 78–79, 81 Party Pieces [with Cowell, Harrison, and Trio [for percussion], 69, 70 Thomson], 154 Triple Music [with Merton Brown and Lou Primitive,79 Harrison], 167 Quartet [for anypercussion], 6, 69–70 Two Pastorales, 208 Radio Music, 106 Two Pieces for Piano, 66–67 Renga, 134 Two 2, 134 Reunion, 106, 162–163, 167 Two 3, 42, 143 Roaratorio. An Irish Circus on “Finnegans Two 4,42 Wake”, 134, 165, 236, 238, 239, 267 Two 6, 143 Root of an Unfocus, 79, 81, 156, 157–158 Variations series, 106, 108 Rozart Mix, 106 Variations I, 34, 35, 107, 129, 132, 145 Ryoanji, 41, 120–121, 134, 141, 143, 234 Variations IV, 107–108, 231, 232, 234, 248, Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 265 Parts: 12 Haiku, 113, 132, 133, 134, 140, Variations V, 160–162, 163, 167 141 Variations VII, 162 Second Construction, 74–75, 77, 216 Waiting, 208 Seven Haiku, 41, 133, 208 Water Music, 103, 104, 106, 208, 248 She Is Asleep,77 Water Walk, 106 “Silent Prayer” 102 Williams Mix, 104, 105, 203, 209, 263, 266 Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard, 172, Winter Music, 164, 175, 176–184, 265–266 189 Lectures and writings Sixteen Dances, 42, 102, 131, 193, 199–201, “45 for a Speaker”, 50, 86 245, 246 “A Composer’s Confessions” [“Vassar Solos for Voice, 137, 138 Lecture”], 44 Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two “An Autobiographical Statement”, 92 Voices in Canon and Six Short Inventions A Year from Monday, 5, 88, 93, 99, 108 on the Subject of the Solo, 64, 65–66, 261 “Ben Weber” [mesostic on], 91

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Cage, John Milton, Jr. (cont.) “The Future of Music: Credo”, 9, 16, 18, 85, “Changes”, 35 86, 256 “Communication”, 36 “Themes and Variations”, 262 “Composition as Process”,23, 29, 35, 47, 50, “To Describe the Process of Composition 86 Used in Music of Changes and Imaginary Composition in Retrospect, 91, 112, 125, 144, Landscape No. 4”, 8 6 145, 146, 265 “Two Statements on Ives”, 88 “Counterpoint”, 261, 261–262 “Ur-Conversation” [with Richard “Defense of Satie”, 26, 44, 128, 187 Kostelanetz], 93 “Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will “Writing for the Second Time through OnlyMake Matters Worse)”, 88, 91, 95, Finnegans Wake”,238 130, 214, 218 X,91 “Edgard Varese”,` 86 Visual art Empty Words,90 Changes and Disappearances, 115–116, “EmptyWords” 90, 130, 134, 138 117 “Erik Satie”,86 Changes and Disappearances, 31, 116 “Erik Satie” [mesostic on], 91 Déka, 122 “Experimental Music: Doctrine”,50, 56, Déreau, 117–118, 122, 124 264 Déreau, 19, 118 “Ezra Pound” [mesostic on], 91 Eninka, 121–122 “Forerunners of Modern Music”, 44, 51, 87, Fire, 121 103, 192 HV, 118–119 For the Birds [with Daniel Charles], 93 HV2, 126–127 “Goal: New Music, New Dance”,85–86 HV2, 14c, 126 “Historyof Experimental Music in the United New River Watercolors, 123 States”,9, 10, 39, 40 Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel, “How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and Run”, 5 112–113 “Indeterminacy”, 5, 11, 16, 34, 36, 50, 86 On the Surface, 116–117, 126 “James Joyce” [mesostic on], 91 “Plexigrams” 112–113, 114 “Juilliard Lecture”,45, 50, 51, 88, 151 River Rocks and Smoke, 123 “Lecture on Nothing”, 50, 51, 53, 86, 87, 101, Rolywholyover, 109–110 130, 131 Ryoanji drawings, 118, 119, 120–121 “Lecture on Something”, 50, 101–102, Where R = Ryoanji, 119–120 131 Where R = Ryoanji R8/15, 120 “Lecture on the Weather”, 134, 215, 216, 217, Ryoku, 121 218 Score Without Parts (40 Drawings by Thoreau): M, 88, 89 12 Haiku, 113, 114 “Manifesto”, 50, 55 Seven Day Diary, 114 “Marcel Duchamp” [mesostic on], 91 Signals, 114–115, 116 MethodStructureIntentionDisciplineNotation Smoke Weather Stone Weather, 123–124 IndeterminacyInterpenetrationImitation Stones, 123–124 DevotionCircumstancesVariableStructure 10 Stones 2, 124 NonunderstandingContingency Without Horizon, 126–127 InconsistencyPerformance [I-VI], 91, 95, Cage, Gustavus Adolphus Williamson 144 (grandfather), 5, 6, 8 “Mureau”, 89, 130, 138 Cage, Lucretia (“Crete”) Harvey(mother), 4, 5, “Music Lovers’ Field Companion”, 264 6, 12, 13, 14 “Navaho Sand Painting or The Picture that is Cage, William (ancestor), 5 Valid for One Day”, 103 Cage, Xenia [Xenia Andreevna Kashevaroff] “Other People Think”, 15, 214, 216, 267 (wife), 4, 8, 11, 13, 14, 26, 44, 49, 74, 81, “Overpopulation and Art”, 214 96, 100, 265 “Robert Rauschenberg”, 50 Calder, Alexander, 103 Silence, ix, 4, 9, 33, 85–86, 87, 93, 96, 99, 106, California, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 24, 41, 243, 246, 248, 256 261, 262 “Sixty-One Mesostics Re and Not Re Norman Southern California Oratorical Contest, 214 O. Brown”, 91 Universityof California at Los Angeles, 10, “Talk I”, 130 25, 152 The Boulez–Cage Correspondence,87 Universityof California at Santa Cruz, 8 “The East in the West”, 44, 45 Universityof Southern California, 25

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Campana, Deborah, 264 Lectures and writings Campbell, Joseph, 44, 265 New Musical Resources, 16, 75, 248 Canada, 162, 217, 218, 249 Crawford [Seeger], Ruth, 9, 10, 69 Capri, 22 Diaphonic Suite No. 1,69 Carmel, CA, 8, 13, 24, 261, 262 String Quartet, 10 Blue Bird Tea Room, 13 ThreeSongs,10 Carter, Elliott, 79 Cross, Lowell, 162, 163, 265 CBS, 13 Crown Point Press, 109, 110, 113, 114, 115, 116, Cernovitch, Nicholas, 151, 152 118, 119, 121, 123, 124, 126 Chambers, WendyMae, 246 Culver, Andrew, 142 Charles, Daniel, 93, 220 cummings, e. e., 18, 68 For the Birds [with John Cage], 93 Cummings, Paul, 262 Chartres cathedral, 21 Cunningham, Merce, 4, 11, 26, 42, 44, 76, 77, Chavez, Carlos, 86, 264 79, 81, 100, 101, 111, 130, 151, 152, 153, Toward a New Music, 86, 264 154, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 165, Chicago, IL, 11, 13, 25, 75, 105, 134, 218, 262 169, 187, 199, 215, 217, 221, 262, 265 School of Design, 262 Cunningham Dance Company, 162, 16 China, 44, 55, 97, 234, 257 Chopin, Fred´ eric,´ 164 Dada, 43, 89 Prelude in d minor, 164 Darmstadt, Germany, 23, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, Christianity, 51, 257 39, 129, 262, 263 Clough, Gregory, 264 Darmstadt-Dokumente,38 Cocteau, Jean, 153 Darmstädter Beitrage,39 Marriage at the Eiffel Tower, 153 Internationales Musikinstitut, 33, 262 Collins, Nicolas, 248–249, 256 DasneueKlavierbuch,22 Broken Light, 249 Dauber, Joan, 265 Devil’s Music, 248–249 Deane, Martha, 152 It Was a Dark and Stormy Night, 249 de Antonio, Emile, 34 Cologne, Germany, 34, 263 Debussy, Claude, 28, 29, 30 Colorado, 5 Préludea ` ‘l’après-midi d’un faune’,28 Concord, MA, 133 de Kooning, Willem, 110–111 Confucius, 242 Denison, Doris, 74, 167 Connecticut, 162 Dessau, Germany, 22, 24 Coolidge, Clarke, 89 d’Estournelles de Constant, La Baronne, 21 Coolidge, (John) Calvin, 12 Detroit, MI, 5 Coomaraswamy, Ananda K., 41, 44–48, 49, 50, Didkovsky, Nick, 245, 252–254, 255 51, 52, 54, 55, 56, 87, 234, 267 Arnalia’s Secret, 253 The Transformation of Nature in Art, 44, 45, Caught By The Sky With Wire, 253 49, 87 Far Away Scares Him, 253 Copland, Aaron, 4, 17–18, 85, 243, 246 Flesh Comes Out, 253 Appalachian Spring, 246 Ironwood, 253 Billy the Kid, 246 Nerveware Nos. 1, 2, 3, 8, 253 Corelli, Arcangelo, 249 SheLookHeSpit, 253 Corner, Philip, 265 Take Your Ears As the Bones Of Their Queen, Cowell, Henry, ix, 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 24, 26, 27, 39, 253, 254 41, 42, 65, 66, 69, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 86, die Reihe,34 92, 100, 107, 128, 153, 154, 157, 159, 203, Dillon, Fannie Charles, 21, 63 206, 228, 244, 247, 261, 262 Distler, Jed, 246 Musical works Doctor Nerve, 252, 253, 254 Marriage at the Eiffel Tower [with John Donaueschingen, Germany, 31, 33, 34, 35, 263 Cage and George McKay], 153, 159, 165, Donaueschinger Musiktage, 31 265 Dreis, Hazel, 14 Ostinato Pianissimo,3 Duberman, Martin, 25 Party Pieces [with Cage, Harrison, and Duchamp, Alexina (Teeny), 162, 163 Thomson], 154 Duchamp, Marcel, ix, 11, 18, 24, 28, 88, 110, Quartet Romantic,75 115, 125, 138, 162, 163, 262 String Quartet No. 1, 69 Three Standard Stoppages, 115 The Banshee, 206 Duckworth, William, 245, 247, 250, 251, 255, United Quartet,69 257–258, 262

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Duckworth, William (cont.) Creating Minds, 16, 18, 19 Cathedral, 250 Garland, David, 244, 246 Gathering Together, 251 “MyPony’s Falling”, 246 Mysterious Numbers, 250–251 George, William, 262 Revolution, 251 Germany, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 37, 39, 224 Their Song, 251 Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 162 Time Curve Preludes, 247 Southwest German Radio, 31 Dune Forum, 261 West German Radio, 238 Dvorˇak,´ Antonín, 76, 153, 215 Gershwin, George, 4 Humoresque, 153 Ginsberg, Allen, 138 Howl, 138 Eckhart, Meister, 44, 51, 96, 257 Giteck, Janice, 257, 259 Editions Ryoan-Ji, 119 Callin’ Home Coyote, 259 Egypt, 20, 90 Gligo, Niksa,ˇ 222 Einstein, Albert, 16, 112 Gnazzo, Anthony, 265 Eliot, T. S., 16 Gold, Arthur, 80 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 20, 21 Goldberg, Jeff, 258 Emery, James, 245 Goldfinger, Erno,¨ 15, 21, 22 England, 20 Goldstein, Malcolm, 160, 161, 265 Erdman, Jean, 44, 76, 77, 157, 169, 215, 265 Gordon, Michael, 245 Ernst, Max, 11, 262 Though Shalt / Thou Shalt Not, 245 Estonia, 162 Gosfield, Annie, 245, 249 Europe, ix, 8, 13, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 29, 31, Gottschalk, Louis Moreau, 164 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 50, 106, 162, 228, The Banjo, 164 236, 237, 244, 248, 260 Graham, Martha, 16, 44, 262 Expressionism, 17 Graves, Morris, 11, 18, 92 Grieg, Edvard, 6, 8, 21, 261 Feininger, Lyonel, 24 Album Leaf, 261 Feldman, Morton, 34, 101, 102, 103, 105, 170, Anitra’s Dance, 261 171, 176, 242 March of the Dwarfs, 261 Intersection 1, 102 The Butterfly, 261 Intersection 3, 176 To Spring, 261 Projection 1, 102 Griffiths, Paul, 28 Projection 2, 102 Gropius, Walter, 22, 23 Fibonacci series, 247 Guggenheim Foundation, 26, 101, 262 Fischinger, Oscar, 10, 13, 69 Guggenheim, Peggy, 11, 262 Fisher, Linda, 245 Gundlach, Ralph, 152 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 251 Guston, Philip, 103 Fizdale, Robert, 80 Gwiazda, Henry, 245, 257 Fluxus, 39, 106 Fort, Syvilla, 77–78, 152 Hamburg, Germany, 162 Fortner, Wolfgang, 39 Hamm, Charles, 266 Foss, Lukas, 160 Harris, MaryEmma, 26 France, 26, 27, 42 Harris, Roy, 18 Frankfurt, Germany, 236 Harrison, Lou, 3, 10, 14, 27, 41, 42, 43, 74, 100, Freiburg, Germany, 39 151, 153, 154, 158, 167, 188, 220, 261, Fried, Joshua, 249, 256 265, 266 Freud, Sigmund, 16 Canticle,3 Fuller, Buckminster, 88, 91, 130, 147, 168, 218, Counterdance in the Spring,3 219, 222 Double Music [with John Cage], 77, 154, 155, Futurism, 264 159, 167, 220 Party Pieces [with Cage, Cowell, and Galveston, TX, 8, 21 Thomson], 154 Gandhi, Mahatma, 16 Triple Music [with Merton Brown and John Gann, Kyle, 244, 246, 256 Cage], 167 Paris Intermezzo, 246 Harvard University, 27, 91, 105 So Many Little Dyings, 246 Harvey[or Carey],Minnie (Cage’s maternal Gardner, Howard, 16–19 grandmother), 6, 94

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Harvey[or Carey],Marge (Cage’s aunt), 6 Johns, Jasper, 34, 88, 103, 111 Hawaii, 54 Johnson, Phillip, 25, 26 Hay, Harry, 23, 262 Joyce, James, 18, 76, 91, 138, 146, 147, 236, 238, Helm, Everett, 33 239, 262 Helms, Hans G., 33, 37, 38, 263 Finnegans Wake, 138, 238 Helms, Khris, 263 Jung, Carl, 257 Henmar Press [C. F. Peters Corporation], 106 Junkerman, Charles, 221 Hicks, Michael, 24, 262 Hiller, Lejaren, 163, 164 Kagel, Mauricio, 39 Fifth Sonata, 164 Kalamara, Fontini, 112 Illiac Suite, 163 Kandinsky, Wassily, 24 Himalayas, 109 Kasemets, Udo, 162 Hindle, Brooke, 20 Kass, Ray, 122, 123 Hinduism, 58, 187 Keaton, Buster, 38–39 Hines, Thomas, 25, 262 Kentucky, 162 Hitler, Adolf, 224 Kirkpatrick, John, 22, 63 Hollander, Irwin, 112 Kirstein, Lincoln, 26, 262 Holzaepfel, John, 266 Kitzke, Jerome, 246 Honneger, Arthur, 261 The Animist Child, 246 Hovhaness, Alan, 261 Klee, Paul, 24, 26 Huang Po, 52, 55, 56, 57 Kleier, Roger, 245 Doctrine of Universal Mind, 52, 55, 56 Kluver,¨ Wilhelm (Billy), 160, 162 Hughes, Langston, 217 E. A. T. 162 Hughes, Robert, 154 Kobrin, Ed, 138 Hui-neng, 97 Korea, 39 Kostelanetz, Richard, 30, 91, 92, 93, 252 I Ching, 18, 43, 51, 57, 102, 112, 113, 127, 130, Conversing with Cage, 92–93 136, 138, 139, 141, 164, 201, 202, 203, John Cage: An Anthology, 91–92 207, 208, 212, 225, 229, 236, 242, 252, John Cage: Writer, 92, 95 257, 265, 266 “Ur-Conversation” [with John Cage], 93 Illinois, 36, 162 Kotik, Petr, 252, 253, 255 Universityof Illinois, 36, 106, 163 John Mary, 252 AssemblyHall, 163 Many Many Women, 252 Center for Advanced Studies, 163 Quiescent Form, 252, 253 India, 21, 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 81, 87, 234 There Is Singularly Nothing, 252 Ireland, 238, 239 Kremen, Irwin, 174 Isaacson, Leonard, 163 Krenek, Ernst, 263 Italy, 20, 264 Krishnamurti, Jiddu, 21 Ives, Charles, 8, 9, 20, 27, 88, 90, 128 Kubera, Joseph, 266 Eighteen [recte Nineteen] Songs, 10 Kwang-tse, 52, 56, 57, 264 General William Booth Enters Into Heaven,10 Kyoto, Japan, 119, 234 In the Night,10 Ryoanji Garden, 119 Symphony No. 4, 10 Washington’s Birthday,10 Latin America, 92, 216 Ives, George, 20 Lauten, Elodie, 257 Lautreamont,´ Comte de, 217 Jackson, Michael, 249 Les Chants de Maldoror, 217 Bad, 249 Lazare-Levy[L´ evy,´ Lazare], 22 Jacob, Max, 11 Leach, MaryJane, 257 James, Phoebe (Cage’s aunt) 6, 21, 63 League of Composers, 3, 170 Jameson, Fredric, 236 Le Corbusier, 210, 212 Jansen, Margaret, 74 Les Six, 153, 261 Japan, 53, 58, 96, 108, 134, 135, 234, 249, 263 Liberal Catholic Church, 5 Shamisen music, 108 Lieberman, Fredric, 160, 161 Java, 107, 108 Life magazine, 3, 4, 10, 243 Gamelan music, 107, 108 Lippold, Louise, 265 Jawlensky, Alexey von, 24 Lippold, Richard, 41, 80, 265 Jeffers, Robinson, 262 Lisbon, Portugal, 162

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Lloyd, Barbara, 162 Mountain Lake Workshop, VA, 109, 122–123 Locatelli, Pietro, 249 Mount Wilson Observatory, CA, 164 London, United Kingdom, 112, 162 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 80, 131, 136, 164, Lorenz, Konrad, 95 224 On Aggression,95 Musikalisches W¨urfelspiel, 131, 136, 164 Los Angeles, CA, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 21, 23, Mumma, Gordon, 159, 160, 161, 162, 165 24, 63, 66, 105, 109, 152, 153, 167, 214, Assemblage [with John Cage and David 262, 265, 267 Tudor], 165 KNX Radio, 7 Landrover [with John Cage and David Tudor], Los Angeles County, 12 165 Los Angeles High School, 8, 15, 23, 25 musique concrete, 245 Los Angeles Times,4 Mussorgsky, Modest, 249 Museum of ContemporaryArt, 109 Pictures at an Exhibition, 249 Ocean Park, 7 Pomona College, 8, 15, 21, 23 Nameth, Ron, 163, 165 Universityof California at Los Angeles, 10 Nancarrow, Conlon, 80, 243 Lu Yun, 105, 264 Nattiez, Jean-Jacques, 30 The Valley Wind, 264 Navaho sand painting, 103 Lyon, Ninette, 105 Neutra, Richard, 24 New England, 20 MacLow, Jackson, 89 New Music Edition [New Music Quarterly, etc.], Maderna, Bruno, 33 9, 10, 24, 265 Magnes, Frances, 169 New York, NY, 3, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 21, 24, Mallorca, 22 25, 26, 34, 41, 44, 48, 53, 66, 87, 94, 100, Mao Tse-Tung, 89, 130 101, 105, 106, 109, 111, 112, 118, 120, Marclay, Christian, 249 134, 154, 162, 163, 169, 174, 236, 243, Marcus, Geneviere, 223 249, 252, 259, 262, 263, 265, 266 Masselos, William, 169, 170 Armory, 162 Massenet, Jules, 153 Artists Club, 101, 103, 110 Aragonaise, 153 “Bozza Mansion”,105 Mathews, Max, 161, 164 Brooklyn, 9, 13 Maule, Cornelia, 261 Cedar Bar, 102 McGrath, Thomas, 251 Columbia University, 44, 53, 54, 58 McKay, George, 153 East Village, 249 Marriage at the Eiffel Tower [with John Cage Electric Circus, 163 and HenryCowell], 153, 159, 165 Greenwich Village, 44 McLuhan, Marshall, 58, 88, 91, 92, 97, 108, 218 Hollander Workshop, 112 Mendelssohn, Felix, 153 Lincoln Center, 160, 162 Incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Metropolitan Opera, 236 Dream, 153 Monroe Street, 105 Methodist Episcopalian Church, 5 Museum of Modern Art, 3, 4, 14, 16 Metzger, Heinz-Claus, 37, 38, 263 New School for Social Research, 9, 10, 16, 66 Mexico, 217, 264 New York Herald Tribune,26 Michigan, 5, 11 New York Mycological Society, 92 Universityof Michigan, 11 New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 161 Milan, Italy, 106 New York Public Library, 112 Studio di Fonologia, 106 “New York School” of painters, 101, 103, 264 Milhaud, Darius, 261 “New York School” of composers, 34, 102, Miller, Henry, 251 103, 105, 264 Mills College, CA, 11, 25, 163, 262 New York Times, 111–112, 125, 162 Miro,´ Joan, 88 PM’s Sunday Picture News,94 Moholy–Nagy, Laszl´ o,´ 22, 23, 25, 262 Saturday Evening Post, 163 The New Vision,25 Stable Gallery, 104, 111 Moog, Robert, 160, 265 Town Hall, 34, 223, 225 Mormonism, 5 Washington Square, 105 Moszkowski, Moritz, 21, 261 New Zealand, 6 Serenata, 261 Nicaragua, 214 Motherwell, Robert, 110 Nicholls, David, 86

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Noguchi, Isamu, 48 Retallack, Joan, 94, 111, 120, 123, 125, 142 Nono, Luigi, 33 Musicage: Cage Muses on Words Art Music, North Carolina, 151 94–95 Norton, Charles Eliot, Lectures, 91 Revill, David, 6, 12 Richards, M. C., 151, 152, 265 Oakland, CA, 109 Riegger, Wallingford, 9 Oja, Carol J., 8–9 Rimbaud, Arthur, 266 Making Music Modern, 8–9 Rochberg, George, 249 Ojai, CA, 21 “Concord” String Quartets, 249 Oliveros, Pauline, 232 Roeder, Margarete, 120, 123 Olson, Charles, 151, 152 Rohe, Ludwig Mies van der, 22, 23, 25 Ontario, Canada, 5 Roldan,´ Amadeo, 3, 69, 74 Oregon, 162 Ritmicas V & VI, 3 Ornstein, Leo, 9, 10 Rolnick, Neil, 249 Oswald, John, 249 Sanctus, 249 Dab, 249 Rome, Italy, 224 Plunderphonics, 249 Rosenberg, Wolf, 37, 38, 263 Ross, NancyWilson, 43 Paik, Nam June, 39, 88, 106, 161 Rouse, Mikel, 245 Pan American Association of Composers, 8, 18 Dennis Cleveland, 245 Panama Canal, 12 Rudhyar, Dane, 9, 10 Paris, France, 8, 15, 18, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 63, Granites,10 87, 101, 153, 162, 169, 170 Sinfonietta, 10 Bibliotheque` Mazarin, 8, 15, 21 Ruggles, Carl, 8, 9, 10 Conservatoire, 22 Lilacs,10 Notre Dame cathedral, 21 Sun-Treader,10 Partch, Harry, 9, 10, 14, 42 Toys,10 Parton, Dolly, 249 Rug Road Mill, MA, 109 Patterson, David, 267 Russell, William, 9, 10, 69, 74 Paulson, Pamela, 124, 126 Fugue for Eight Percussion Instruments,10 Perloff, Marjorie, 27, 28 Three Dance Movements,10 Peru, 249 Russia, 220 Peters, Ronald, 265 Russolo, Luigi, 86, 264 Philadelphia, PA, 10 The Art of Noise, 86, 264 Picasso, Pablo, 16 Rutgers University, NJ, 36 Pijoan, Jose,´ 15, 21 Rzewski, Frederic, 89 Pittsburgh, PA, 13, 109 Carnegie International Art Exhibition, 109 Salzman, Eric, 108 Polansky, Larry, 244, 246 Sample, Don, 22, 23, 24, 262 Pollock, Jackson, 21, 40, 103 San Francisco, CA, 11, 43, 109, 123, 165, 265 “Popeye” hornpipe, 153 Ghiradelli Square, 165 Poulenc, Francis, 261 KQED television, 165 Pound, Ezra, 266 San Quentin prison, CA, 153 Prague, Hungary, 252 Santa Monica, CA, 8, 13, 15, 261 Primus, Pearl, 217, 267 Santa Monica Evening Outlook, 261 Princeton University, NJ, 163 Sarabhai, Geeta, 48, 49 Pritchett, James, 31, 32, 34, 81, 87, 191, 199, 202, Sariputra, 98 208, 234, 246, 266 Sasaki, Ruth Fuller, 263 Sasaki, Sokeian, 263 Rachmaninoff, Sergy, 153 Satie, Erik, 6, 18, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 46, 47, 52, Prelude in c# minor, 153 68, 70, 92, 101, 131, 136, 137, 138, 140, Rademacher, Hans, 173 143, 187, 189, 261, 262 Rauschenberg, Robert, 34, 92, 97, 102, 103, 111, Chorals, 137 112, 121, 151, 152, 174 Socrate, 27, 28, 131, 136 “black paintings”, 102 Trois Gymnop´edies,29 Revolver, 112 Trois Sarabandes,29 Shades, 112 Vexations, 143 “white paintings”,97, 102, 151, 174 Schanzer, Jeffrey, 245

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Scheyer, Galka, 23, 24, 25, 26 StonyPoint, Rockland County,NY, 13, 100, 105, Schindler, Rudolph, 23 106, 132, 134 Schluter,¨ Wilhelm, 33, 262 St. Paul de Vence, France, 162 Schoenberg, Arnold, ix, 10, 14, 15, 16, 22, 24, Stravinsky, Igor, 8, 16, 22, 39, 63, 76, 223, 246, 25, 26, 27, 31, 33, 39, 48, 54, 63, 64, 66, 249, 260 67, 68, 70, 83, 93, 94, 109, 110, 159, 228, Rite of Spring, 249 240, 258, 260, 262, 264 Strobel, Heinrich, 31 Die Jakobsleiter, 262 Sumsion, Calvin, 112, 163, 164 Moses und Aron, 262 Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro, ix, 15, 51, 53, 54, 55, 58, Three Piano Pieces, op., 11, 15, 63 132, 145, 146, 220, 263, 264 Schubert, Franz, 108, 249 “Zen in the Modern World”, 55 Schuman, William, 246 Sylvester, David, 110, 111 Schumann, Robert, 164 Carnaval, 164 Takahashi, Yuji, 265 Scriabin, Aleksandr, 8, 22, 63 Tao Te Ching,57 Seattle, WA, 11, 25, 43, 77–78, 152, 153, 154, Taoism, 50, 52, 56, 57, 58, 87 167, 262, 264 Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 12 Cornish School, 11, 25, 43, 77, 152, 262 Tennessee, 5 RepertoryPlayhouse,77–78, 152 Tenney, James, 160, 161 Seeger, Charles, 65, 69, 70, 107, 264 Theosophy, 21 Musical works the Tiger’s Eye, 103 The Letter,69 Thomson, Virgil, 11, 18, 25, 26, 27, 29, 31, 68, Lectures and writings 92, 100, 101, 154, 188, 261, 262 “Tradition and Experiment in (the New) Party Pieces [with Cage, Cowell, and Music”, 69 Harrison], 154 Sessions, Roger, 85, 163, 246 Thoreau, HenryDavid, 4, 20, 58, 89, 91, 95, 106, Shakespeare, William, 52 113, 114, 117, 118, 130, 132, 133, 134, Sherman, Cindy, 239 135, 138, 140, 143, 146, 147, 216, 217, Shostakovich, Dmitry, 76, 215 218 Sibelius, Jean, 76, 215 Journal, 130, 216 Smith, Catherine Parsons, 261 Tobey, Mark, 11, 18, 110, 125 Smith, Evelyn Paddock, 261 Tolland, Lilah, 116, 118, 119 Societ´ e´ des Artistes Decorateurs´ Franc¸ais, 23 Tomkins, Calvin, 28, 262 Solway, Carl, 112 Tommasini, Anthony, 27 Spain, 22 Torelli, Guiseppe, 249 Speech, Bernadette, 246 Toronto, Canada, 162 Chosen Voices, 246 Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, 162 Sri Ramakrishna, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 263 transition, 23, 262 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 48, 49 Tudor, David, 31, 33, 34, 35, 101, 105, 151, 152, Steffens, Lincoln, 262 161, 162, 165, 169–185, 209, 222– 223, Stein, Gertrude, 15, 18, 21, 63, 251, 252, 262, 265, 266 262, 266 Assemblage [with John Cage and Gordon Steinecke, Wolfgang, 31, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 263 Mumma], 165 Steiner, George, 185 Landrover [with John Cage and Gordon Stevenson, Robert, 25 Mumma], 165 Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 33, 34, 36, 39, 248, Turkey in the Straw, 153 251, 263 Gruppen, 251 Ulmer, GregoryL., 267 Hymnen, 251 United Kingdom, 224 Klavierst¨uck XI, 33, 36 Utah, 5 Kurzwellen, 248 Opus, 1970, 248 VanDerBeek, Stan, 161 Telemusik, 251 van Rossum, Frans, 22, 23, 261, 262 Stockholm, Sweden, 162 Varese,` Edgard, 9, 39, 69 Stone, Carl, 249 Ionisation,10 Hop Ken, 249 Vassar College, NY, 48 Mom’s, 249 Vaughan, David, 162 Shing Kee, 249 Vietnam War, 217

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Virginia, 4, 5, 109, 122 Winter, Julie, 257 NewRiver,122 Wisconsin, 123 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 91, 95, 146 University, 122 Wolfe, Julia, 245 Vischer, Antoinette, 265 Windows of Vulnerability, 245 Voltaire, 96 Wolff, Christian, 34, 89, 97, 101, 102, 105, 265, 266 Wagner, Richard, 153, 160 Duo II for Pianists,97 Lohengrin, 153 Wolpe, Stefan, 169 Walden Pond, MA, 113 Sonata for Violin and Piano, 169 Warhol, Andy, 3, 233 Woodstock, NY, 174 Washington, George, 4 Maverick Concert Hall, 174 Washington (State), 152, 162 World War I, 11, 210 Universityof Washington, 152, 153 World War II, 13, 184, 186, 210, 217 Weber, Ben, 169 WPA, 14 Ballet, op. 26, “The Pool of Darkness”, 169 Wyoming, 5 Webern, Anton von, 31, 70, 187, 189 Weil, Simone, 264 Xenakis, Iannis, 250 La Personne et le Sacr´e, 264 Weimar, Germany, 22 Yankee Doodle, 153 Weiss, Adolph, 8, 9, 14, 16, 24, 25, 66, 258, 262 Yano, Akiko, 249 ThreeSongs,10 Weisshaus, Imre, 24 Zen Buddhism, 41, 43, 50, 51, 53–54, 55, 56, Wesleyan University, CT, 256, 267 58, 89, 95, 96, 132, 134, 218, 234, 257, Weston, Alice, 112 263 Weston, Flora, 262 “Ten Ox-Herding Pictures”, 89, 95 Williams, Paul, 105, 106, 209 Zimmer, Heinrich, 44 Williams, William Carlos, 266 Zukovsky, Paul, 140