[Title unknown]
Description: texts for Le flambeau
Date: between 1922-June 29, 1928
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: no publication data are known [Stevenson, Robert 1982, 6-8].
[Untitled]
Description: program note on The Seasons
Date: prior to May 18, 1947
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1947a.
[Untitled]
Description: program note for a piano recital by William Masselos on the
music of Alban Berg, Arnold Schoenberg, Ben Weber, and Anton Webern, November
22, 1947, New York, Carnegie Hall
Date: prior to November 22, 1947
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1947b.
[Unititled]
Description: program note on Pierre Boulez, Second Sonata for David Tudors
performance, December 17, 1950
Date: 1950
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1950b.
[Untitled]
Description:
manifesto on music
Date: 1952
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1952b.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Williams Mix
Date: 1952?
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 192
Publication: none? [or = Cage 1959h/1970, 109-111?***].
[Untitled]
Description: manifesto on painting [white paintings] of Robert Rauschenberg
Date: before December 27, 1953; Cages statement appeared in Genauers
columns almost three months after the show had closed [Stable Gallery]
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1953b.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on 34'46.776"
for a Pianist and 31'57.9864"
for a Pianist
Date: before October 17, 1954
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1954XTITLE.
[Untitled]
Description: program notes on Concert for
Piano and Orchestra, orchestral parts and solo for piano, First Construction (in Metal), Imaginary Landscape No. 1, Music for Carillon No. 1, She Is Asleep (duet for voice and
prepared piano and quartet for twelve tom-toms), Six Short Inventions, Sonatas
and Interludes [1 and 2], Williams
Mix, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen
Springs
Date: ca. 1957-1958
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 217
Publication: Cage 1959h.
[Untitled]
Note: editorially
titled Two Short Poems
Description: collective effort of Cages class
Date: June-July 1958
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage et al. 1970
Literature: Kostelanetz 1970d, 120n.
[Untitled]
Description: statements on the dance (editorially entitled Three Asides on the
Dance
Date: ca. 1959
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1993h.
[Untitled]
Description: statement about musical notation, for symposium, Form is a Language
Date: prior to April 1960
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 1 folder 6
Publication: Cage 1960UNTITLED.
[Untitled]
Description: notes on various pieces written between 1933-1962
Date: completed July 1962
Publication: Cage 1962e.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Cartridge Music
Date: 1962
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 2 folder 2
Publication: Cage 1962d.
[Untitled]
Description: statement for The Arts in Dialogue, exhibition of graphic music
notation at the Honolulu Academy of Art
Date: April 1964
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 1 folder 16
Publication: Cage 1970a
Literature: Cage 1967o, 40; Kostelanetz 1970d, 149n.
[Untitled]
Description: recipes
Date: before or during 1965
Sources: presumably none
Publication: included in Lyon 1965.
[Untitled]
Description: liner notes on Jeanne Kirstein
Date: before or during 1970
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1970p.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Marcel [Duchamp]
Date: 1971
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973o.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on 62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham
Date: 1972?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1972MESOSTICS.
[Untitled]
Desciption: review of Louise Varse, Varse. New York: Norton, 1972
Date: 1972-1974
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1974BOOKS.
[Untitled]
Desciption: review of Mary Caroline Richards, The
Crossing Point
Date: 1973
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 11 folder 8-10
Publication: Cage 1973a.
[Untitled]
Description:
statement for Edition Peters Contemporary Music Catalogue
Date: before September 1975
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1975g.
[Untitled]
Description:
statement for Vinko Globokars Orchester
Date: 1974 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none
Literature: Polaczek 1986.
[Untitled]
Description: address to an orchestra
Date: spoken on July CHECK, 1976 in La Rochelle [ADD]
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1976d.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Renga with Apartment house 1776
Date: 1976
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1976NOTES; ?=?ALSO Cage 1976[UNTITLED?>ISCM-PROGRAM?].
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Cheap Imitation,
identical with Cage 1981? [Untitled] (liner notes re Cheap imitation, Chorals).
Port Jefferson, New York: Cp2 Records (liner notes for Cp2/7, on the sleeve)
Date: September 21, 1977
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1977e.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on the name of Joan La Barbara
Date: before or during 1977
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1977d.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Etudes Australes
Date:
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1978ETUDES.
[Untitled]
Description: program notes on Etudes Australes and Freeman Etudes
Date: circa 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1978UNTITLED.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Sounday
Date: circa 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1978UNTITLED.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on train
Date: 1977 or 1978, before June 26, 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979q.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Seven-Day Diary [artwork]
Date: before or during April 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1978kZU.
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Chorals for phonodisc Cp2/7
Date: ca. 1981
Publication: Cage
1981l.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostics on Swift
Date: ca. 1981
Publication: Cage
1981k.
[Untitled]
Description: program notes on various pieces
Date: circa 1982
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982AMORES; Cage 1982ARIA; Cage 1982CREDO; Cage 1982ETUDES; Cage 1982KONZERT; Cage 1982QUARTETT; Cage 1982SONG.
[Untitled]
Descrition: mesostic on Klaus Schning]
Date: before August 12, 1982 (of 1979?)
Publication: Cage 1982UNTITLEDSCHNING.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Klaus Schning
Date: August 1979; completed before or on August 12 in Paris
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982UNTITLEDMESOSTIC.
[Untitled mesostic on Klaus Schning]
Written before 12 August 1982 (of 1979?)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982X[UNTITLED-SCHNING].
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on James Joyce
Date: August 15, 1979
Note: written with Klaus Schning?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage and Schning 1982UNTITLED.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic
Date: October 22, 1979 with Klaus Schning
Publication: Cage and Schning 1982UNTITLED/CHECK.
[Untitled]
Description:
program note on Reunion
Date: 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: (in German trans only): Cage 1980g.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Muzički Salon
Date: 1982
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982UNTITLED.
[Untitled]
Description: program notes on Thirty Pieces for String Quartet
Date: 1983 OR 1984 [from SCORE?]. Darmstadt: Internationale Ferienkurse fr Neue Musik, mimeographed, [2].
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Etudes Boreales
Date: July 1984 in New York
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985X[ETUDES<CHANGE].
[Untitled]
Description: program note on Ryoanji
Date: December 1984 in New York
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985RYOANJI<CHANGE.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Artics
Date: July 25, 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985m.
[Untitled]
Description: program notes on Atlas
Eclipticalis with Winter Music
Date: October 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1986UNTITLED.
[Untitled]
Description: autoku on I have nothing to say... (two
different texts?)
Model: John Cage, Lecture on Nothing, 109, I have need it
Date: November 1986 in New York
First reading: December 5, 1986
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: included in Cage 1988c, 16-17
Literature: Cage 1988c, 11, 16n.
[Title unknown]
Description: [Ratschlge fr meine Freunde ber makrobiotische Dit]
Date: before or during 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987RATSCHLGE.
[Untitled]
Description: autoku based on I, you...
Date: before February 15, 1987
First known reading: February 15, 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
[Untitled]
Description: program notes on Winter Music,
Satie and Webern]
Date: before ***June, 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987UNTITLED.
[Title uncertain]
Description: program book for Europeras 1
& 2
Date: 1987 in Frankfurt am Main
Sources: a. MSS for the first (rejected) version of the program book (in German
only, extent unknown); b. MSS for the definitive version of the program book
(in German only); Berlin, collection Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn
Publication: CHECK.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostics on Dorothea Tanning
Date: before May 18, 1988
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1988e.
[Untitled]
Description:
statement for Life
Date: before December 1988
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1988f.
[Untitled]
Description:
mesostic on Andy Warhol
Date: before or during 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989l.
[Untitled]
Description:
mesostic on de Kooning
Date: before or during 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989m.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Roberto Fabbriciani
Date: circa 1989
Sources: present location unknown.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on words nd ends
Date: circa 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989n.
[Untitled]
Description: preface to Guido Facchin, Le percussioni
Date: August 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage, John 1989PREF.
[Untitled]
Description:
mesostic on Luigi Nono
Date: between May 9-July 1990
Note: printed error
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1990b.
[Untitled?]
Description: Darmstadt 1990 introduction plus mesostics
Date: 1990?
First reading: July 1990, Darmstadt
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1991e.
[Title uncertain]
Description: mesostics on Samuel Beckett
Date: circa 1990?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: NNB Cage 1991?[In program, Nederlandse Opera, Feldman, Neither].
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Demetrio Stratos
Date: February 17, 1991
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage
1998b.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Bratislava
Date: prior to June 18, 1992
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1992j.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Večery novej hudby
Date: prior to June 18, 1992
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1992i.
[Untitled]
Description: mesostic on Mauricio Kagel
Date: June 26, 1990
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1991gNOTE-O-GRAM.
!
Description: mesostic on Gerd Zacher
Date: April 2, 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989a.
I-VI
Note: full title MethodStructureIntentionDisciplineNotationIndeterminacyInterpenetrationImitationDevotionCircumstancesVariableStructureNonunderstandingContingencyInconsistencyPerformance
Note: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1988-1989
Description: mesostics on method, structure, intention, discipline,
notation, indeterminacy, interpenetration, imitation, devotion,
circumstances, variable structure, nonunderstanding, contingency,
inconsistency, performance
Date: June 1988-January 1989
First performance:
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 814
Publication: Cage 1990f
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1991, passim; Cage/Retallack 1996, passim; Gronemeyer 2004; Hannes 1993; Kostelanetz 1990c; Pasler 1990-1991; Perloff,
M. 1990-1991.
2 Pages, 122 Words on
Music and Dance
Date: before or during November 1957
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 23
Publication: Cage 1957d.
7 out of 23
Poem. 23 mesostics
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939, 626-627
Date: 1976 or 1977
Commission: at the request of Eliott Anderson for TriQuarterly
Sources: LOCATION, draft (2 leaves, 28 cm, white paper [unidentified], typescript, blue and purple ballpoint ink)
Publication: Cage 1977a
Literature: Cage 1979c, 133-136; Cage 1980e; Cage/Schning 1982, 73; Thorman 2002, 205.
25 Mesostics re and
not re Mark Tobey
Description:
Date: 1972 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973n.
26 Statements re
Duchamp
Description: essay
Date: 1962-or 1963 / completed before September 1963
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 4 folder 11-13, 15
Publication: Cage 1963a
Literature: Cage 1967o, 70n; Charles 1974; Kostelanetz 1988b, 133-134; Perloff, M. 1994a.
36 Mesostics re and not re Marcel Duchamp
Description: poem
Note: original title 36 Acrostics re
and not re Marcel Duchamp [cf. M, 26?]
Dedication: for Shigeko Kubota
Date: July 1970
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 4 folder 14
Publication: Cage 1970[36]
Literature: Cage 1973h, ix; Cage/Roth and Roth 1973, 78; Mac Low 1980, [43].
45' for a Speaker
Description: lecture
Note: may be performed with 26'1.1499" for a String-Player, 27'10.554" for a Percussionist, 31'57.9864" for a Pianist, 34'46.776" for a Pianist, in any manner by any number of players
Duration: maximum 45 minutes
Date: October 1954 or earlier
First reading: October 1954, London, Composers Concourse; John Cage (Cage 1961h, 146n)
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 1 folder 1-5
Publication: Cage 1961e
Literature: Cage 1961h, 146n-147; Cage 1962e, 26; Cage 1973d; Cage 1993d, 119; Cage/Charles 1976, 34; Charles 1970a; Griffiths 1981a, 30; Toop 1968[?], 15; Pritchett 1993, 76, 96, 175, 182, 210n20; Schfermeyer 1990, 157-158; Schmidt-Pirro 2003; Thorman 2002, vi, vii, x, 24, 27, 39-53, 62, 71, 73, 76, 82, 84, 110, 199, 205.
45 Questions. See Communication.
A Few Ideas about
Music and Films
Description: article
Date: before or during 1951
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 5-6
Publication: Cage 1951a.
About Roaratorio
Description: lecture
Date: circa 1979
Sources: present location unknown
First reading: Donaueschingen, October 1979
Publication: Cage 1980e.
Adolph Weiss: Reminiscences
Description: article
Note: written in response to a request by William B. George; withdrawn from planned publication in A Year from Monday at the request of Adolph Weiss
Date: completed February 13, 1965
Sources: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Library
Publication: none
Literature: none.
Afterword
Description: afterword to A Year from Monday
Date: circa 1967
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 13 folder 17-18
Publication: Cage 1967a.
Afterword
Description: afterword to Pour les oiseaux
Date: circa 1976
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1976POSTFACE.
Agenku2
Description: text [poem]
Date: November 1984
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: none.
Anarchy
Description: lecture consisting of twenty 50 %-mesostics based on thirty quotations
Model: Michael Bakunin, Norman O. Brown, John Cage, Andrew Culver, Albert Einstein, Richard Buckminster Fuller, Emma Goldman, Paul Goodman, Hippolyte Havel, Peter Kropotkin, Errico Malatesta, Henry David Thoreau, Leo N. Tolstoy, Walt Whitman
Date: January 1988
First reading: February 27, 1988, John Cage
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 1 folder 9-14
Publication: Cage 1989b
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 2, 42, 163; Gronemeyer 1991; Thorman 2002, 112, 155, 205.
Another Song
Description: poem
Model: Henry David Thoreau
Date: Fall [September or early October], 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1981a
Literature: Cage 1980e.
Apropos of (Marcel
Duchamp 1961)
Description: mesostic on Kubota Shigeko Kubota
Date: 1981
Dedication: for Shigeko Kubota
Sources: dated (twenty years after); present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1981b.
Art and Technology
Description: text
Date: 1969
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 1 folder 15
Publication: Cage 1993a.
Art Has Quite Changed:
Music Today
Date: before October 22, 1962
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1962a.
Art is Either a
Complaint or Do Something Else
Model: Jasper Johns, statements taken from Mark Rosenthal, Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974. New York: Thames and Hudson in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988
Description: text in 13 parts
Date: 1988
First reading:
(presumably) November 6, 1988
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1991a
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1991, 107, 109-116, ***; Cage/Retallack 1996, xxiv, 54, 56-64, 66n20, 68, 108; Thorman 2002, 112, 190, 206.
An Autobiographical
Statement
Note: earlier
title Lecture at the Commemorative Lecture Meeting
Decription: prose text
Date: August 1989 [according to American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters exhibition May 17-June 11, 1989: written February 1989]
Commission/Dedication: written for the Foundation Inamori Kyoto Prize 1989 [acc to correspondence (June 26, 1989!, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters to Cage) written for the Acrosanti Foundation [?]
Sources: New York, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (8 leaves, typescript)
Publication: Cage 1991AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL.
B.W. 1916-1979
Description: mesostics on Ben Weber
Date: before or during 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979b.
The Beginning of a
Connection between Satie and Thoreau
Description: collage
of quotations
Model: writings
of Erik Satie and Henry David Thoreau
Date: November
4, 1979
Sources: Berlin,
collection Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (autograph)
Publication: Cage
1980a
Literature: Metzger,
H.-K. and Riehn 1980, 3.
Bolivia Mix
Model: eighty-nine brief collages from newspaper articles
Date: July 21-August 26, 1988
First reading: June 17, 1990, London?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none (on printout: Cottage Publications 1).
By way of an Introduction
Description: letter to Ornella Volta
Date: May 25, 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989c.
Canada, November 1989, Montreal
Note: title possibly not by Cage
Description: mesostic on Chapelle du Bon Pasteur
Date: November 3, 1989
Dedication: poudrerie pour Guy Soucie
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1997.
CBC Interview re Bach
with Anne Gibson
Description: typescript in proportional notation of a recorded interview
made in December 1984 in Toronto (Cage/Gibson 1989, 56)
Date: November 1985 in New York
Publication: Cage/Gibson 1989.
Centering
Description: ten mesostics on M.C. Richards
Date: 1989 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989d.
Changes
Description: lecture
Date: before or during September 1958 and completed prior to September 6, 1958
First read: September 6, 1958
Sources: Los Angeles, California, Getty Center, 940073 box 7 folder 2; Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 15
Publication: Cage 1961a
Literature: Cage 1961h, 18n; Thorman 2002, vii, 27, 53-62, 78, 84, 88, 110, 206.
Chavez and the Chicago Drouth
Description: review
Date: before or during March-April 1942
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1941-1942a.
Cinekus2
Description: six mesostics on Cinma; part of The
First Meeting of the Satie Society
Model: Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit, Location 1, no. 1 (Spring 1963), 41-44
Date: February-March 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none
Literature: Thorman 2002, 180.
Communication
Note: earlier
titles 45 Questions and Rutgers Lecture
Description: lecture
Model: John Cage, earlier writings***; Kwang-Tse; Christian Wolff, New and Electronic Music. Audience 5, no. 3 (Summer 1958)
Date: before or during April 1958; revisions before September 1958
First reading: before or during April 1958, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, John Cage
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 1 folder 7, box 2 folder 10-12
Publication: Cage 1958b
Literature: Cage 1959g, [2]; Cage 1961h, 18n, 41n.
A Composers Confessions
Description: lecture
Date: 1948
First reading: February 28, 1948
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University,
Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 7
Publication: Cage 1991c
Literature: Cage 1993d, 243; Cage/Gillmor 1976, 20; Kostelanetz 1988b, 66.
Composition in
Retrospect
Description: mesostics; renga; a lecture with slides (Strawn et al. 1982)
Date: August 17-29, 1981 and 1988
First reading: November 5, 1981
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982COMPOSITION; Cage 1992b
Literature: Baucke 1982[a]; Brennecke 1982[b]; Cage 1993d, 178, 242; Cage/Duckworth 1989, 32; DHarnoncourt 1982JOHN/1982, 61; Lck 1982; McLean, P. 1982AT; Pasler 1994; Thorman 2002, 111.
Concerto grosso fr 4 Fernsehgerte und 12 Radios
Description: program note
Date: 1979?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1980b.
Congratulations and Love
Description: two mesostics on Dieter Schnebel
Date: July 26, 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1990a.
Contemporary Japanese Music: A Lecture
Description: transcript of a freely spoken lecture authorized by Cage
Date: circa 1963
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1963b.
Contemporary Music
Festival: A Report
Description: review
Date: prior to May 15, 1949
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1949a.
Contemporary Music
Festivals Are Held in Italy
Description: review
Date: before or during June 1949
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1949b.
Correction
Description: mesostic on silence
Date: before or during 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979r.
Counterpoint
Description: article
Date: prior to February 15, 1934
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1934.
Defense of Satie
Description: lecture
Date: 1948
First reading: summer 1948
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 24
Publication: Cage 1970b
Literature: Erdmann 1990c.
Diary: Audience 1966
Description: text
Date: March 1966
First reading: May 21, 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 1 folder 17-19
Publication: Cage 1966a
Literature: Cage 1967o, 50n; Shultis 1995; Shultis 1998c, 101-114.
Diary: Emma Lake Music
Workshop 1965
Description: mosaic of statements, anecdotes, observations
Note: requested by Canadian Art
Date: August 15-28, 1965 at Emma Lake, Saskatchewan
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 4 folder 18-23, box 14 folder 10
Publication: Cage 1966b
Literature: Cage 1967o, 21n, 50n; Cage/Kostelanetz 1968WE/1970, 16; Shultis 1998c, 101-102, 106.
Diary: How to Improve
the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse)
Note: the title derives from Kwang-Tse
Description: TEXT
Extent: ten installments each comprising one month of thirty days of approximately 100 words each; 1. 1965. I-XXIX; 2. Continued 1966. XXX-LX; 3. Continued 1967. LXI-XC; 4. Continued 1968. XCI-CXVIII; 5. Continued 1969. CXIX-CL; 6. Continued 1970-1971. CLI-CLXXVIII; 7. Continued 1971-1972. CLXXIX-CCVIII; 8. Continued 1973-1982. CCIX-CCXXXVI
Date: during or after September 1965 (1); July-early September 1966 (2); 1967 (3); 1968 in Champaign, Illinois; revised in 1969 (4); 1969 (5), 1970-1971 (6), 1971-1972 (7), between 1973 and 1982 (8) and completed before or during March 1982
First performance: presumably February 4, 1966 (Part One)
Note: in 1967, Cage also designed a typography for subsequent publication in collaboration with Dick Higgins (Cage 1967c, esp. [15])
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 27-47, box 3 folder 1-25, 27
Publication: Cage 1966c; Cage 1967b; Cage 1967c; Cage 1968a; Cage 1971b; Cage 1971c; Cage 1973b; Cage 1983a; Cage 1983c
Literature: Anonymous 1967X[NOTE]; Cage 1967o, 3n, 52n, 70n, 145n; Cage 1973h, x-xi; Cage 1979c, ix; Cage 1983j, 155n; Cage/Retallack 1996, xxi-xxii, 72, 152; Kostelanetz 1970a; Thorman 2002, 90-91, 93, 98, 99, 105, 110, 131, 206.
Diary: Inter-Arts
Description: text
Date: prior to February 4, 1983
First reading: February 4, 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Dickins
Description: mesostics on Dick Higgins
Date: before or during 1991
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1991d.
The Dreams and
Dedications of George Antheil
Description: article
Date: before or during January 1946
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage
1946b.
The East in the West
Description: article
Date: before or during April 1946
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1946a
Literature: Patterson, D.W. 1996, 96.
Edgard Varse
Description: article
Date: September 23, 1958
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 12 folder 20
Publication: Cage 1958-1959
Literature: Cage 1961h, 83n.
Eight Whiskus
Description: mesostics
Model: Chris Mann, [untitled text]
Date: prior to or during November 1984
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: [as text of songs of the same title].
Electronic Souls
Description: letter to the editor
Date: January 12, 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan
University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 4 folder 16-17
Publication: Cage 1966d.
Empty Mind
Description: radio play for male voice
Text: John Cage, Themes and Variations, introduction
Extent:
Duration: unknown
Date: before February 14, 1987
First broadcast: February 15, 1987, Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Empty Words (text composition)
Description: for speaker / vocalist using amplification/ Lecture for amplified voice, consisting of a nonsyntactical mix of phrases, words, syllables and letters with optional slides (made by Babette Mangolte) of drawings by Henry David Thoreau shown simultaneously, and tape recordings made by Maryanne Amacher
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Journal, text and marginal drawings
Extent: Part I (223 stanzas); Part II (173 stanzas); Part III (12 columns); Part IV (12 columns)
Duration: 11 hours and 30 minutes, including 3 intervals of 30 minutes each; each part 2 hours 30 minutes
Date: August 1973-1974, completed before August 8, 1974
First reading: (part 4) August 8, 1974 (Cage/Anonymous 1974EMPTY, 96); (complete) June 6-7, 1979, Bonn, Kulturforum Bonn-Center, John Cage
Sources: Berlin, collection Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn
Berlin, collection Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn. Empty Words (text, realization. Part IV. Weingartner version, extent unknown)
Publication: Cage 1974c; Cage 1974d; Cage 1975b; Cage 1975c; Cage 1978a; Cage 1978b; Cage 1979EW
Literature: Cage/?GILLMOR 1982[b] (omitting punctuation); Cage 1979c, 11, 33, 51, 65 (INTRODUCTIONS), 133, and 189; Cage 1978WRITING, [7]; Cage 1980e; Cage 1993d, 98-99; Cage/Anonymous 1975; Cage/Anonymous 1977; Cage/Bosseur 1981, 105; Cage/Cope 1980, 11-12; Cage/Kostelanetz 1980; Cage/Malina 1986; Cage/Retallack 1996, 140; Gronemeyer 1981-1982; Hannes 1993; Johnson, Tom 1975a; Jrging 2002; Mac Low 1980, [44]; Metzger, H.-K. 1994; Pritchett 1996; Shultis 1995; Zeller 1979b; [?Cage/]Schning 1979, 15 [?=1982, 87?].
Empty Words (collection of writings)
Description: collection of writings
Date: 1977-1979
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 1-2, 7
Publication: Cage 1979EW.
Literature:
Erik Satie
Description:
Model: Erik Satie, excerpts from writings
Date: before or during 1958
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 11 folder 11-12
Publication: Cage 1958a.
Essay (1985). See Writings through the Essay: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.
Etudes Australes
Description: program note
Date: before or during January 1975
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1975NOTES.
Experimental Music
Description: address
Date: winter 1957, prior to February 10, 1957
First reading: February 10, 1957
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 8
Publication: Cage 1959a
Literature: Cage 1961h, 7n.
Experimental Music: Doctrine
Description:
Note: first published as Experimental Music
Date: prior to June 1955
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 9-10
Publication: Cage 1955a.
Fifteen Domestic
Minutes. See under Music.
The First Meeting of the Satie Society
Medium: for two speaking voices, a singing voice, and other musicians (optionally recordings); includes [***cross-refer] Cinekus2, Mesdamkus2, Musikus2, Relakus2, and Variations with Interludes and Variations
Model: Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, James Joyce, Marshall McLuhan, Chris Mann, Henry David Thoreau and the first book of Moses, Genesis
Extent:
Duration: 90 minutes
Date: 1984-1985 and completed March 1985
First performance: March 31, 1985
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 641-654, 657-659, 1048
Publication: none [Sonnekus separately]
Literature: Cage 1985FIRST; Cage 1986SATIE; Cage 1993d, 139, 178, 195; Cage/Retallack 1996, 78, 147-149, 150, 316-318; Cage/Sweeney-Turner 1991, 2-3; Cage et al. 1986; Erdmann 1993f, 168-182.
FM 94
Description: mesostic on WNYC
Extent: 1 stanza (4 lines)
Date: prior to February 16, 1983
Dedication: for WNYC [radio station]
First performance: February 16, 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none
Literature: Rothstein 1983.
For A.C. on his 70th Birthday
Description: poem/Mesostic on Aaron Copland
Date: before November 14, 1970
Dedication: for Aaron Copland
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973c.
For d.d.
Description: mesostic
Date: February 1988 in New York
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: CHECK.
For Her First Exhibition with Love
Description: poemMesostic on Fanny Schning
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Date: October 1982
Dedication: for Fanny Schning
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982FOR.
For More New Sounds
Description: theoretical study
Date: before or during May-June 1942 in Chicago, Illinois
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1941-1942b
Literature: Austin, W.W. 1966, 379.
For n.
Description: mesostic on Niki de Saint Phalle
Date: July 1987
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1987b.
For S. Fort, Dancer
Description: mesostic on Syvilla Fort
Date: between 1973 and 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979d; Thorman 2002, 107.
For the S.S.O.
Description: mesostic on Savaria Symphony Orchestra
Date: July 1986
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1986a.
For William Mc N. Who
Studied with Ezra Pound
Description: mesostic on William Mc Naughton
Date: between 1973 and 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979e.
For Your 50th
Description: mesostic on Fylkingen
Date: August 22, 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983-1984.
Forerunners of Modern
Music
Description: article
Date: before or during 1949
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 12
Publication: Cage 1949c.
Foreword
Description: foreword to Silence (book)
Date: June 1961 [and 1959]
Note: partly identical with Cage 1959g
Publication: Cage 1961d.
Foreword
Description: foreword to Dunn 1962
Date: July 1962
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1962b
Literature: Cage/Schaardenburg 1970, 51.
Foreword
Description: foreword to A Year from Monday (book)
Date: October 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 14 folder 4-5
Publication: Cage 1967d.
Foreword (1972).
See How the Piano Came to Be Prepared
Foreword
Description: foreword to M (book)
Date: ca. 1972-1973
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 8 folder 26-29
Publication: Cage 1973e.
Foreword
Description: foreword to Empty Words
(book)
Date: prior to or during 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979f.
Foreword
Description: foreword to X (book)
Date: 1982 or 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983b.
Foreword
Description: foreword to Heidi Von Gunden, The Music of Ben Johnston
Date: before or during 1986
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1986b.
Foreword
Description: foreword to Colin C. Sterne, Arnold Schoenberg: The Composer as Numerologist
Date: before or during 1992
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1993c.
Forgive Me
Description: mesostic on Oscar [sic] Fischinger
Date: May 8, 1980
Dedication: to Elfriede Fischinger
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: as part of Cage/Anonymous 1993CORRESPONDENCE, 129.
The Future of Music
Description: lecture
Date: prior to April 3, 1974; revised before or during 1979
First reading: between April 3-6, 1974
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 3-4; New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 1003
Publication: Cage 1974f
Literature: Cage 1979c, 177n.
The Future of Music:
Credo
Description: lecture
Date: 1940 in Seattle, Washington?
First reading: [after 1938]
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 13
Publication: Cage 1959b
Literature: CHECKCage 1961h, 3; Dahlhaus 1984JOHN; Griffiths 1981a, 7; Spinello 19NN; Yates 196?8a, 323.
Genekus2
Description: TEXT
Date: April 1985 in New York
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: none
Literature: Thorman 2002, 207.
Gentlemen of the Wesleyan Glee Club
Description: lecture
Date: [before spring 1961]
First reading: spring 1961
Sources: draft (9 leaves, typescript); Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library
Publication: none.
Goal: New Music, New
Dance
Description: article
Date: before or during December 1939
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1939
Literature: Cage 1961h, 87n.
Grace and Clarity
Description: article
Date: before or during November 1944
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 20
Publication: Cage 1944
Literature: Thorman 2002, 13.
Grand Street and Monroe (for R.L. Twenty Years After)
Description: five mesostics on Richard Lippold
Date: early 1973
Sources: Red Hook, New York, John Cage Trust at Bard College
Publication: Cage 1973GRAND.
h2 WDR
Description: Eight mesostics on Hrspiel
Date: before 29 September 1985; revised between 29 September 1985 and February 1987
Hoe alfabetiseren?; first and second version separately listed?
First reading: (first version), 29 September 1985, Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Kleiner Sendesaal, John Cage (program 1. Acustica, CHECK)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985H2WDR.
Haikus: Letters from the Seventeen Chapters of
Finnegans Wake
Description: mesostics
Date: November 1983
First performance: presumably May 21, 1991
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: none.
Happy New Years
Description: text [original titles of both parts, pp. 30-33, 33-34]
Date: 1964?
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 6 folder 4-8
Publication: Cage 1964XCHECK.
History of
Experimental Music in the United States
Description: article
Date: 1958 or 1959 [part of the classes at the New School for Social Research]
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 6 folder 9-10
Publication: Cage 1959ZUR.
HMCIEX
Note: the title fuses HCE (Here Comes Everybody, after James Joyce) and
mix
Description: radio play on magnetic tape for male voice, female voice, reciting a
collage from a list of 502 syllables (English) and 520 syllables (German)
derived from the names of 151 countries recognized by the United Nations, and
recordings of excerpts of folk music selected from those countries
Extent: *** systems
Duration: approximately 50 minutes (sendung?), piece 30 minutes?
Commission: Independent Composers Association, Los Angeles, California,
co-produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk
Dedication: for the Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival
Date: 1983-1984
Realization: May 1984, John Cage (English), Wiltrud Fischer (German)
First broadcast: July 10, 1984
Sources: Bensberg, collection Klaus Schning; New York, Public Library, JPB
94-24 folder 628-629
Publication: excerpt of draft in facsimile in Charles 1987-1988, 402
Literature: Kostelanetz 1987d.
How Many Years ago
Description: mesostic
Date: before or during 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985b.
How the Piano Came to
Be Prepared
Note: earlier title Foreword
Description: text
Date: April 1972
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 5-6
Publication: Cage 1973d.
How to Pass, Kick,
Fall and Run
Description: stories
Date: before November 24, 1965
First reading: November 24, 1965
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 6 folder 11-17
Publication: Cage 1967f
Literature: Mumma 1967; Thorman 2002, 75, 83, 92, 207.
If There Isnt Any,
Why Do You Wear Them?
Description: five mesostics on shoes
Date: before or during 1977 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1977b.
Im the Happiest
Person I Know (S.W.)
Description: three mesostics on Sue Weil
Date: between 1973 and 1975 and completed before April 3, 1975
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1975e.
The Immaculate
Medawewing
Description: short story
Date: before December 1929
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: (as Jonathan Cage): Cage 1930.
In Memoriam S.W.
Description: mesostic on Stefan Wolpe
Date: between April 4-10, 1972
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973f.
In This Day...
Description: introductory remarks for programs with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company
Date: fall 1956, prior to November 9
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 21-22
First reading: presumably November 9, 1956
Publication: Cage 1957b
Literature: Cage 1961h, 94n.
Indeterminacy
Description: lecture
Date: September 1958-completed before September 8
First reading: September 8, 1958
Sources: Los Angeles, California, Getty Center, 940073 box 7 folder 2; ***CHECK location (instructions for performance, 1 leaf, ruled paper, pencil); Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 13-14
Publication: Cage 1958BER; Cage 1959g.
Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music
Description: lecture in the form of a series of ninety short stories
Date: Late September-prior to October 9, 1958, with 1959 additions
First performance: October 9, 1958
Sources: Los
Angeles, California, Getty Center, 960036, box 40 folder 10; Middletown,
Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 6
folder 18, box 7 folder 1-3
Publication: Cage 1959f; Cage 1961GG; facsimile of an autograph sketch in Kostelanetz 1970d, illustration 42, between 197-198. Cf. also Cage 1968[Cunningham stories]/1970; Dunn 1962, 32 (data); compare John 1970: Cage ?et al. 1968[Cunningham-Stories]
Literature: Cage 1959g; Cage 1961h, 260-261; Cage 1967o, 133; Helms 1959; Kostelanetz 1992a; Yates 196?/1968, 306-307.
International
Patriotism
Description: valedictorian address
Date: prior to June 29, 1928
First read: June 29, 1928
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none
Literature: none.
Inter-View
Date: circa 1985.
Introduction
Description: introduction to English translation of Pour les oiseaux
Date: ca. 1981
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1981d.
Introduction
Description: introduction to the book Marshall
McLuhan: The Man and His Message
Date: before or during 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989e.
Introduction to Mushrooms et Variationes
Description: explanatory note
Date: circa 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1986c (previously as program notes).
ISCMkus
Note: title uncertain; possibly Sounds and Silence
Description: mesostics
Date: March 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none [possibly in ISCM World Music Days 1989 program].
James Joyce, Marcel
Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet
Description: mesostics and quoted excerpts
Note: in 1980-1982 Cage transformed the text into a radio play.
Model: Marcel Duchamp, Salt Seller: The writings of Marcel Duchamp, ed. Michel Sanouillet and Elmer Peterson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973; James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939; Erik Satie, Ecrits, runis, tablis et annots par Ornella Volta. Paris: Editions Champ Libre, 1977
Commission: Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Date: October-December 1979
First performance: January 25, 1980
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1981e; Cage1988FurnitureBallade (excerpt)
Literature: Cage 1983X, 53-55 (headnote Alphabet); Cage/Cope 1980, 11; Cage/Roth and Roth 1973***; Cage/Schning 1984-1985a; Cage/Schning 1984-1985b; Cage/Timar, Frasconi, and Ingelevics 1981, 14; Charles 1979, 139-160; Crampton 1985; Fullemann 1985***; Kostelanetz 1987d; Kostelanetz 1988b, 168; Perloff, M. 1994a; Reichert 1984-1985; Schning 1982.
James Joyce, Marcel
Duchamp, Erik Satie: Ein Alphabet
Description: radio play on magnetic tape
Text: John Cage (German trans. by Klaus Reichert)
Extent: *** systems
Duration: 82 minutes
Date: between 1980-1982 and completed February 27, 1982 in New York
First broadcast: July 6, 1982, Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, 3. Programm, Hrspielstudio: Klaus Reichert (narrator); John Cage (James Joyce); Daniel Charles (Erik Satie); George Brecht (Marcel Duchamp); Wiltrud Fischer (Rrose Slavy); Teeny Duchamp (Teeny Duchamp); Buckminster Fuller and Franz Mon (Buckminster Fuller); Christian Wolff (Henry David Thoreau); Dick Higgins (Robert Rauschenberg); Nadja Schning (Mao Tse-tung); Mauricio Kagel (Brigham Young); Jonathan Albert (Jonathan Albert); Frans van Rossum (Thorstein Veblen); Joanis Tzortzis (Oppian); John Cage (English), Klaus Schning (German), Chang Chung Jen (Chinese), preface; recordings made by Klaus Schning (voices) and Peter Behrendsen (noises); John Cage and John David Fullemann, realisation; Klaus Reichert, translation)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none
Literature: Behrendsen 1984-1985b; Cage/Schning 1984-1985a; Cage/Schning 1984-1985b; Fullemann 1984-1985; Hinz 1985; Kostelanetz 1987d; Reichert 1984-1985; Schning 1982, 21.
Jasper Johns
Description: mesostic
Date: 1979 or
earlier
Sources: present
location unknown
Publication: Cage
1979g.
Jasper Johns:
Stories and Ideas
Description: article
Date: September 1963-January 1964
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 7 folder 24-44
Publication: Cage 1964JASPER
Literature: Kostelanetz 1988b, 133-136; Perloff, M. 2006.
Juilliard Lecture
Description: text. I-IV
Note: used in Untitled Black Mountain piece
Date: before March 27, 1952
First reading: March 27, 1952
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 8 folder 1-4
Publication: Cage 1967g
Literature: Cage 1961h, x; Cage 1967o, 95n; Kostelanetz 1969[D]/1970, 198; Nyman 1974EXPERIMENTAL, 60.
July 13, 1972
Mesostic on Verena
Date: July 13, 1972
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973g.
Klassik nach Wunsch
Description: radio play for records and speaking voices?
Extent:
Duration:
Date: 1982 and finished on or before 23 April
First performance: April 23, 1982, Cologne, Westdeutscher
Rundfunk, Klassik nach Wunsch, John Cage and Klaus Schning (voices)
(Cage/Schning 1983[CHECK]; For 1983CHECK,
31)
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 603
Publication: none
Literature: Schning 1983HRSPIELMACHER.
Ladies of the Monday Club and Gentlemen of the
Faculty
Description: lecture
Date: 1960
First reading: 1960
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection
1000-72, box 8 folder 5
Publication: Cage 1970c.
Lecture at the Commemorative Lecture Meeting. See An Autobiographical Statement.
Lecture on Commitment
Description: mosaic of statements, anecdotes, stories
Extent: fifty-six cards, twenty-eight with texts, twenty-eight with numbers representing seconds, both categories to be combined randomly (one text excepted)
Duration: 20 minutes (Cages realization)
Note: written for the Beta Symposium at Wesleyan University
Date: completed February 21, 1961
First performance: February 23, 1967
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 4-6
Publication: Cage 1967h
Literature: Cage 1967o, ix, 112.
Lecture on Nothing
Description: text
Date: circa 1949-1950
First reading: 1950, New York, Artists Club on 8th Street, John Cage (Cage 1959g; Cage 1961d, ix; Snyder, E. J. 1970a, 38)
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 22
Publication: Cage 1959c
Literature: Cadenbach 1998; Cage 1959g; Cage 1961d, ix-xi; Cage 1961h, 109n; Maier, T.M. 2001b; Pritchett 1993, N-N***; Shultis 1995; Thorau 1994.
Lecture on Something
Description:
Date: during or after 1951 or later [***FR: 1949]
First reading: during or after 1951, New York, Artists Club, John Cage (Snyder, E. J. 1970a, 38)
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 11 folder 29-32
Publication: Cage 1959d
Literature: Cage 1961h, 128n; Budweg 1982CHECKREL; Oehlschlgel 1979CHECKREL; Shultis 1995.
Letter(s) to Erik Satie
Note: title also encountered as Letters to Erik Satie and Letter to Erik Satie
Note: may be performed simultaneously with Sound Anonymously Received [music]
Choreography: Merce Cunningham, Tango
Medium: speaker/vocalist and tape loops (Cage reciting the name, Erik Satie, letter by letter, recorded and made into a tape loop played during the first four minutes; at the fourth minute sound stops and on-stage television set plays for 30 seconds, followed by the sound of a wailing teapot with boiling water; at the end tea is made and drunk by Cage wearing a throat microphone)
Extent: unknown
Duration: unknown
Dedication: for Walter Marchetti (1) and Juan Hidalgo (2)
Date: May 6, 1978 (1) and May 7, 1978 (2) in Milan
First performance: presumably October 5, 1978 [***also in Paris May 7-19, 1978]
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 576-577; Paris, collection Ornella Volta
Publication: none; facsimile sketches, Avant-scne Ballet/danse [***]; Charles 1987-1988, 414-415
Literature: Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 6; Sears 1981; Thorman 2006.
List No. 2
Description: text
Date: 1960 or 1961
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1970e.
Listening to Music
Description: lecture
Date: prior to or during fall 1937
First reading: fall 1937
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 8 folder 21
Publication: Cage 1993e.
A Long Letter
Description: mesostics on Conlon Nancarrow
Date: before or during 1977
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1977c.
Looking at Painting from a Musical Point of View
Description: text
Date: 1974?
First read:
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 8 folder 22
Publication: none.
Macrobiotic Cooking
Description: recipes
Date: 1984
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 816
Publication: Cage 1991f.
Many Happy Returns
Description: mesostic on Lou Harrison
Date: between 1973 and 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979i.
Marcel Duchamp and
Suzuki Daisetz
Description:
Note: Part of Themes and Variations?
Date: before or during 1981
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1981g.
McLuhans Inuence
Description: text. Statement?
Date: January 11, 1967
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 9 folder 17
Publication: Cage 1970f.
The Meadows Award 1989
Description: mesostic on Robert Rauschenberg
Date: October 3, 1989
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989f.
Meister Duchamp or
Living on Water
Description: mesostic on Meister Eckhart
Date: April 14, 1991
Sources: private collection Daniel Charles
Publication: Cage
1994c.
Mesdamkus2
Description: seventeen mesostics on Trois pomes damour; part of The First Meeting of the Satie Society
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Date: February-March 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Mesostic
Description: mesostic on Mac Low
Date: before or during 1992
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1993f.
Mesostic
Description: mesostic
Model: Kurt Schwitters, An Anna Blume (Merzgedicht 1)
Date: before or during 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987d
Literature: Erlhoff and Stadtmller 1987.
Mirage verbal:
Writings through Marcel Duchamp, Notes
Description: poem in ten parts (ten writings through); mesostics on mirage verbal
Model: Marcel Duchamp, Notes, arranged and translated by Paul Matisse. Paris: Centre National dArt et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1980; repr. 1983
Duration: circa 25 minutes
Date: April-May 1984
First read: August 26, 1984
First broadcast: February 14, 1989
Note: in French
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1990d.
Mirakus2
Description: twelve mesostics on mirage verbal
Model: Marcel Duchamp, Notes, arranged and translated by Paul Matisse. Paris: Centre National dArt et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1980; repr. 1983
Note: also used as text for songs of the same name
Date: November 1984
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage (extent unknown)
Publication: Cage 1990e.
Mir in the Third Person:
8 Statements
Description: statements
Extent: 8 statements comprising 29, 62, 40, 7, 35, 23, 47, 58 words respectively
Date: September 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 9 folder 19-22
Publication: Cage 1967j
Literature: Cage 1967o, 85n.
Morris Graves
Description:
Date: summer 1957, prior to June 29
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 6 folder 3
Publication: Cage 1957c.
Mosaic
Description: review
Date: April 1965, completed before April 21; revised September-October 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 9 folder 24-29
Publication: Cage 1965a
Literature: Cage 1967o, 43n.
A Movement, A Sound,
A Change of Light
Description: essay on Merce Cunningham for program booklets of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Date: circa 1963
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1963MOVEMENT
Literature: none.
Mud Book
Description: book for children on the various ways to make pies and cakes out of mud
Date: early 1950s in collaboration with Lois Long (drawings)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage and Long 1982
Literature: Tomkins 1964[PROFILES]/1976, 114.
Muoyce (Writing for
the Fifth Time through Finnegans Wake)
Description: text, mainly whispered, occasionally chanted
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Duration: approximately 120 minutes
Extent: 17 sections (as chapters in Joyce) in the same proportions as the length of the chapters; total 608 lines; one line lasts approximately 11.35" seconds
Date: 1981 or 1982-prior to March 27, 1983
First reading: March 27, 1983
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 900
Publication: Cage 1982j
Literature: Cage 1980e; Cage 1983e; Cage 1983j, 173; Kostelanetz 1987d; Mac Low 1980, [47]-[48].
Muoyce (Writing for the Fifth Time through
Finnegans Wake)
Description: program note
Date: before or during 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983e.
Muoyce II (Writing
through Ulysses)
Description: poem in eighteen sections for soloist with six tapes of traffic sounds recorded in different cities
Model: James Joyce, Ulysses
Date: 1992 in New York and completed before or during May
First reading: October 5, 1993
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1992eMUOYCE
Literature: Cage 1992eMUOYCE, 151n; Culver 1992[CHECK], 287.
Mureau
Description: poem
Note: earlier titles Music of Thoreau, Mueau [May 1972 Bremen, presented as such]; version for solo voice and three pre-recorded tapes realized by John Cage
Extent: I. N columns [M, 35-38]; II. N columns [M, 40-44]; III. N columns [M, 45-49]; IV. N columns [M, 50-56]
Duration: approximately 70 minutes
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Journal
Date: prior to November 7, 1970
First performance: shortly after November 7, 1970
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 9 folder 30-32
Publication: Cage 1971d
Literature: Cage 1972c; Cage 1972[LETTER-TO-OTTE-B]; Cage 1972[LETTER-TO-OTTE-C]; Cage 1973h, ix, xiii, 219; Cage 1979c, 11; Cage 1980e; Cage/Kostelanetz 1980; Cage/Smith, S. S. 1992, 50; Charles 1978c, 227+; David 1977; Griffiths 1981a, 41; Mac Low 1980, [43]; Shultis 1995.
Mureau
Description: program notes
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1972c.
Mushroom Book
Description: texts [also visual art]
Date: 1972
Publication (of the text): Cage 1972MUSHROOM
Literature: Thorman 2002, 131, 209.
Mushroom Haiku
Description: this is presumably the mesostic on Morel cited in the preface to Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake
Date:
Publication: .
Mushrooms
Description: mesostics on
Date: 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979j.
Mushrooms et
Variationes
Description: mesostics
Duration: 75 minutes
Date: September-October 1983
First performance: October or November 1983 (possibly October 31, 1983)
Sources: Berlin, collection Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (fair copy, typescript)
Publication: Cage 1984a; Cage 1985d
Literature: Cage 1986c; Gronemeyer 1985b; Schning 1985.
Music and Art
Description: collage of texts
Date: prior to or during 1985
Model: Anonymous, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Michele Porzio, Erik Satie, Alberto Savinio [pseudonym of Andrea de Chirico] and Arturo Schwartz
Publication: Cage 1985DD.
Music and Dance
Description: TEXT
Date: early January 1983
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983MUSIC.
Music and Particularly Silence in the Work of Jackon Mac Low
Description: text
Date: before or during 1980
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1980d.
Music and the
University: What Kind? What Aim?
Description:
transcript of spoken statement
Date: November
18, 1967
Sources: Urbana,
University of Illinois, University Archives
Publication: none
Literature: none.
Music for Magnetic Tape: History
Description:
Date: prior to March 21, 1953; presumably revised or completed Spring 1955
First read: March 22, 1953
Sources: Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Music Library; Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 12 folder 5-10
Publication: none
Literature: referred to by Pritchett 1988, 198.
Music for Thirteen
Description: program note
Date: before October 23, 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987e.
Music in Aix
Description: review
Date: 1949, prior to August 13
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1949d.
Music Lovers Field
Companion
Description: article
Date: prior to or during 1954
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 7
Publication: Cage 1954MUSIC.
Literature: Cage 1961h, 274n.
Musical Manuscripts – an Introduction to Notation
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979k.
Musikus2
Description: fourteen mesostics on Furniture Music; part of The First Meeting of the Satie Society
Model: Chris Mann, Whistlin is Did
Date: February-March 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Nam June Paik: A Diary
Description: text
Date: October 1965
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 8-11
Publication: Cage 1965b.
The New School
Note: originally untitled?
Description: text
Commission: written at the request of Clara Meyer, as contribution to a monography
on the New School for Social Research, which presumably never appeared
Date: during or after 1960
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1970g.
Literature: Kostelanetz 1970d, 118n.
New York Mycological
Society
Description: text
Date: prior to May 9, 1965
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1970h
Literature: Kostelanetz 1970d, 151.
Nine Mesostics re Jackson Mac Lows Tree* Movie
Description: poem
Date: February 9, 1975
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: included in Cage 1975PART.
Notations
Description: text, typographical design and foreword of Notations
Note: compiled in collaboration with Alison Knowles
Date: begun 1966 or 1967 in collaboration with Dick Higgins and Alison
Knowles (Cage 1967a, 163); completed 1968?, foreword May 1968
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1969NOTATIONS.
Notations for A. K.
Description: mesostic on Alison Knowles
Dedication: for Alison Knowles, for her show Um-Laut, Galerie Schppenhauer in Kln (Engelbertstrae 30), January 17-February 22, 1992, vernissage January 17, 1992
Date: December 1991 or earlier
Publication: printed on the invitation for the vernissage, December 1991.
Note re Recent Texts
Description:
Date: before or during the fall of 1973
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973i.
Now (1987)
Description: mesostic on listening
Date: before or during 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987NOW.
Now (1988)
Note: part of Time (Three Autokus)
Model: Buckminster Fuller, Now Hourglass, in Synergetics 2: Further Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking. [New York?***]: Macmillan, 1979
Date: March 1988
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: included in Cage 1990h.
On Dylan Thomas
Description: text
Date: prior to January 26, 1972
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 12 folder 13-14
Publication: none.
On Film
Description: address to Creative Film Foundation
Date: prior to April 6, 1956
First reading: April 6, 1956
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 11
Publication: Cage 1970i.
On Nam June Paiks Zen for Film (1962-64)
Description: text
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1968b.
On Robert
Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work
Description: text
Date: February 1961
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 32
Publication: Cage 1961ON
Literature: Cage 1961h, 98n; Cage 1962CARTRIDGE; Kostelanetz 1988b, 133-134.
On the Surface
Description: program note on Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras
Date: before November 19, 1981
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1981h.
On the Windshield of a New Fiat for James K.
(who had not made up his mind where to go) and Carolyn Brown
Poem
Mesostic?
Date: 1970?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: as text of Solo for Voice 68 from Song
Books, 246-247; repr. included in Cage 1973k, 94.
One12
Medium: voice
Extent: 2 sentences
Duration: indeterminate
Dedication: for Alfonso Fratteggiani Bianchi and the Quaderni perugini di musica contemporanea
Date: February-June 1992
First performance: June 22, 1992
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 887; Pieve Caina, Quaderni perugini di musica contemporanea
Publication: in Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea no. 52-57 (June 1992), 6-7; repr. in Brand and Bianchi 1993, 30; repr. New York: Henmar Press, 2*** (Peters; 67903)
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 270; Raybaud 1995; Thorman 2002, ix, 6, 27, 105, 113, 115, 143-147, 178, 202, 203, 209.
Other People Think
Description: lecture
Date: 1927?
First reading: 1927?
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 23
Publication: Cage 1970j.
Overpopulation and Art
Description: mesostics
Model: letter by Esther Ferrer (published as Ferrer 1995) and other models
Date: December 1991
Dedication: for the Stanford Humanities Center
First reading: January 28 and 30, 1992
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1992g
Literature: Retallack 1994b.
Package from Switzerland
Description: mesostic on Hanna
Date: before or during 1980
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1980f.
Painting Relates to
Any Moment
Description: poem; autoku
Model: Robert Rauschenberg, TITLE?, 19NN
Date: 1988 in New York
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1989g.
Percussion Music Seattle 38-NYC 90
Description: mesostic on William Russell
Date: February 1990
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1990P.
Poem for Edwin Denby. See Present.
Present
Note: also
published as Poem for Edwin Denby
Description: mesostic on Edwin Denby
Date: presumably 1963
Dedication: for Edwin Denby
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1970k
Literature: Cage 1973h, ix; Kostelanetz 1970d, 149n.
Problem
Date: February 1955 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1955b.
Proposal to Establish a Center for Experimental Music
Description:
Date: summer 1963, written with David Tudor
Sources: Los Angeles, California, Getty Center, 940073 box 7 folder 3; Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library (draft, 6 leaves, typescript)
Publication: none.
Re and not re Fuller and Mao
Description: text
Date: circa 1972
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 3 folder 26
Publication: Cage 1972e.
Relakus2
Description: seven mesostics on Relche; part of The First Meeting of the Satie Society
Model: Marcel Duchamp, Notes,
arranged and translated by Paul Matisse. S.l. [Paris]: Centre National dArt et
de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1980 [CAGE zegt: 1983]
Date: February-March 1985
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1986RELA.
Remarks before a Recital
Description:
remarks on recital by David Tudor, March 19, 1959
Date: before March 19, 1959
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 10 folder 33-37
Publication: Cage 1959DAVID (as David Tudor).
Remarks before a Visit
to Japan
Date: September 14, 1962
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1962c.
Remarks on Theatre Song and Ikon
Description: review?
Date: November 1960
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 11 folder 2-3
Publication: Cage 1960a.
Repertoire
Description: text
Date: ca. 1991?
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folders 879-880
Publication: ?.
Rhythm Etc.
Description:
Date: October 1961-May 1962
Note: beginning later used for Time (Three Autokus)
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 11 folder 6-7
Publication: Cage 1966f
Literature: Cage 1967o, 120n.
Robert Rauschenberg
Description: mesostic
Date: before or during 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979m.
Rutgers Lecture. See Communication.
Ryoanji
Description: program note
Date: prior to November 18, 1988
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1988R.
Scenario for M.F.
(with Numbers in Celebration of his 60th Birthday)
Description: mesostics on Morton Feldman
Date: July 1986 in Szombathely
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987h.
Sculpture musicale
Description: autoku
Model: Marcel Duchamp
Date: August 1985
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1987i.
Selkus2
Description: thirteen mesostics on Marcel Duchamp
Model: Marcel Duchamp, Notes, arranged and translated by Paul Matisse. Paris: Centre National dArt et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1980; repr. 1983
Date: November 1984
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1990SELKUS.
Series re Morris
Graves
Description:
Model: John Cage, rhythmic patterns from Quartet [1935, music]; Sri Ramakrishna; Carl Gustav Jung, Transformation Symbolism in the Mass; the I Ching; Epiphanius; Athenagoras as quoted by Hans Leisegang, The Mystery of the Serpent
Date: 1973-April 1973
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 5 folder 14-box 6 folder 2
Publication: Cage 1974g
Literature: Cage 1979c, 99n; Thorman 2002, 209.
Seriously Comma
Description: essay
Date: September 1965
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 11 folder 15-16
Publication: Cage 1966g.
Silent Environment
Description: program note
Date: 1979?/before NNN January? 1980
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1980h.
Six Arts and Technology
Description: text
Date: late 1969
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 11 folder 26
Publication: none.
Sixty-one Mesostics re
and not re Norman O. Brown
Description: fifteen mesostics on Norman, twenty-four on O, twenty-one on Brown
Date: during or after 1977 or 1978/before or during 1978 (Cage1979c, 123)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979n.
Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham. See Music.
Song (1970)
Description: poem
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Journal
Date: between August and October 1970
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1973[SONG]
Literature: Cage 1973h, x; Cage 1980e.
Song (1973-1978)
Description: mesostic on Jasper Johns
Date: between 1973 and 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979o.
Song for the Tibetan Bowl Ensemble
Description: text
Date: unknown (circa 1991?)
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 1074
Publication: none?
Song Ghosts
Description: poem
Date: April 1929 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1929.
Songs for C.W.
Description: poem/Mesostics on Christian Wolff
Date: July 1985 in Istanbul and Montpellier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985-1986
Literature: Cage 1988c, 11.
Sonnekus2
Description: nine mesostics on Sonneries
Model: the first book of Moses, Genesis
Date: February 1985
Note: used as text for Sonnekus2 (songs, 1985)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985f.
South Winds in Chicago
Description: review
Date: before or during May-June 1942 in Chicago, Illinois
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1941-1942c
Literature: Frst-Heidtmann 1979CHECK, 21.
Sports
Description:
Date:
Sources:
Publication: Cage 1989j.
Stanzas for T. T.
Description: thirteen mesostics on Toru Takemitsu
Date: May 1987
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1991h.
Storia dellopera
Description: text
Date: 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987STORIA.
Stufen: An Autoku for Siegfried Unseld
Description: for any number of readers and/or singers (using no vibrato, singing very quietly)
Text: John Cage, original texts, 19??
Model: Hermann Hesse, Stufen
Extent: *** sentences (instructions for performance), *** sentences (text)
Duration: unknown
Date: June 2, 1989 in New York
First performance: 1989, after June 2, Frankfurt am Main, members of the Ensemble Modern: Hermann Kretzschmar, Hubert Machnik, Catherine Milliken, Rainer Rmer, Annette Stricher, Dietmar Wiesner, voices
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1989k
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1991, 117-118.
Summer Music: The
Parks
Description: review
Date: before November-December 1944 in New York
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1944-1945.
Sylvia Streetor
Recitalist
Description: review
Date: November 13-14, 1942
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1942a.
Talk I
Description: text
Date: September 1965
First performance: September 19, 1965
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 12 folder 3-4, box 14 folder 9
Publication: Cage 1967l
Literature: Cage 1967o, 141n; CHECK: Kostelanetz 1969[D]/1970, 198.
Ten Years before
Sixty-seven
Description: mesostic on Leo Castelli
Date: 1967
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1967m.
Theme and Variations (McLuhan)
Description: mesostics on Marshall McLuhan***
Date: March 1984
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1985g.
Themes and Variations
Description: mesostics
Medium: for voice solo
Extent: [five times fifteen] mesostics
Duration: 60 minutes
Date: [1979?-] 1980; completed prior to May 20, 1980 [January-February?]
First performance: January 16, 1980 (partial); May 20, 1980 (complete)
Sources: present location unknown, but see New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 632
Publication: Cage 1982THEMES
Literature: Cage 1982INTRODUCTION; Cage/De Vree 1980; Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 8; Radano 1982-1983.
There is not much
difference between the two (Suzuki Daisetz)
Description: mesostic on Takiguchi
Date: 1979 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979pTHERE.
Theres Virtually
Nothing to Say
Note: part of Time (Three Autokus)
Model: John Cage, Rhythm Etc. (1961-1962)
Date: March 1988
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: included in Cage 1990h.
These Days
Description: text
Date: 1968
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 12 folder 11-12
Publication: Cage 1970n.
They Come
Description: autoku
Note: earlier title For N. Z.
Model: Samuel Beckett, Elles viennent (1937), in Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems, 1930-1978. London: J. Calder, 1984
Date: December 1985
Dedication: for Nicholas Zurbrugg
Sources: New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 661
Publication: Cage 1987l.
Thirteen Selkus. See Selkus2.
Thoroughness Like
Water
Description: mesostic on Joseph Beuys
Date: May 1986
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1986d.
Time (Three Autokus)
1. What You Say (1986); 2. Now; 3. Theres Virtually Nothing to Say
Description: includes What You Say, Now, and Theres Virtually Nothing to Say
Date: October 1986 (1); March 1988 (2, 3)
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1990h.
Time to Walk in Space
Note: originally untitled
Description: stories about Merce Cunningham
Date: prior to May 8, 1968
First performance: May 8, 1968 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1968c.
To Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music for Piano 21-52
Description: essay
Date: May 1956
Sources: Los Angeles, California, Getty Center, 940073 box 7 folder 2; Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 2 folder 25-26
Publication: Cage 1957a.
To Describe the
Process of Composition Used in Music of Changes and Imaginary Landscape No. 4
Date: after December 13, 1951/circa 1952
Sources: Los Angeles, California, Getty Center, 940073 box 7 folder 2
Publication: Cage 1952a.
To Describe the Process of Composition Used in
Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel
Description: essay
Date: September 1969
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1969c.
Tokyo Lecture
Description: lecture
Date: prior to December 5, 1986
First reading: December 5, 1986
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: included in Cage 1988c, 6-11.
Toyama 1982
Description: mesostic on Takiguchi Shuzo
Date: 1982
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1982TOYAMA.
Two Ackus
Description: poems
Date: April 14, 1985
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: none.
Two Mesostics
Description: two mesostics on Frank OHara
Date: 1978 or earlier
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1978d.
Two Performance Dreams
Description: prose text
Date: before or during the fall of 1980
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1980j.
Two Statements on Ives
Description: statements
Date: April 7, 1964 in Stony Point, New York: (first statement [letter to Michael O. Zahn]) and in September 1965 (second statement); written out December 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 7 folder 9-23
Publication: Cage 1967n.
Unabstracted
Description: text by Stephen Paul Miller and Cages transformation of it
Date: before June 9, 1984
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage and Miller 1994
Literature: Cage/Shapiro 1985, 109.
Unfinished Music
Description: mesostic on musi
Date: June 30, 1990
Dedication: for Susumu Shno
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1991i.
Unfortunate Comment
on Our Musical Life, That Everybodys Interested in
Description: note on
Erik Satie
Date: prior to
or during 1951
Sources: present
location unknown
Publication: Cage 1951c.
University in Motion: Matrix for the Arts
Description: address
Date: 1967
First reading: presumably November 18, 1967
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 12 folder 19
Publication: none.
Variations with Interludes and Variations
Description: mesostics on Erik Satie, Gnossiennes, Les*** fils dՎtoiles,
Mercure, Nocturnes, Parade, Pices froides, Socrate, Sports et
divertissements, Tendrement, Trois morceaux en forme de poire; part of The First Meeting of the Satie Society
Date: January-March 1985
Duration: 60 minutes
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Virgil Thomson: His Music
Note: original version unpublished
Description: theoretical study
Date: 1956; revised version completed before or during Spring 1959
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library
Publication: Cage 1959i
Literature: Henahan 1972; Tomkins 1964[CHECK]/1976, 114.
Voiceless Essay
Description: TO MUSIC? Electronically transformed recording of text on magnetic tape
Choreography: Merce Cunningham, Points in Space
Commission: BBC 2, conceived for television
Extent: *** systems
Duration: unknown
Date: early 1987
First broadcast: July 18, 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Welsh Womens Chorus
in 5th Annual Concert
Description: review
Date: November 20-21, 1942
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1942b.
What You Say
Description: autoku
Note: part of Time (Three Autokus)
Model: Jasper Johns, [last response in an interview with Christian Geelhaar], in Jasper Johns: Working Proofs, ed. Christian Geelhaar. Basel: Kunstmuseum, 1979
Date: October 1986
First reading: September 9, 1987
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1987o
Literature: Perloff, M. 1997.
Where Are We Eating?
and What Are We Eating? (38 Variations on a Theme by Alison Knowles)
Description: Text; used by Pia Gilbert, in her work Food
Date: before or during 1975
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 12 folder 27-29; New York, Public Library, JPB 94-24 folder 543
Publication: Cage 1975WHERE
Literature ***Cage 1973h, ix.
Where Are We Going? and What Are We Doing?
Description: lecture on four single-track magnetic tapes, to be used, in whole or part, to provide a single lecture, or used in any combination up to four to provide simultaneous lectures; when combinations are made, the loudspeakers are to be separated in space; variations in amplitude may be made, following the score WBAI
Date: during or after July 1960; completed April 26, 1961
Realization: John Cage, voice (recorded 1960?) 45'00" [?each]
First performance: January 9, 1961
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 13 folder 1-10
Publication: 1. Text. Cage 1961[WHERE]; 2. Tapes (rental). New York: Henmar Press (P 6773), 1960? 4 single-track reel tapes, 19 cm/second, mono
Literature: Barnes 1966, 53; Cage 1961h, ix-xi, 194n-195; Cage 1962e, 43; Cage 1962[x in Kostelanetz 1970], 144-145; Cage 1967o, 23; Cage 1970f; Mac Low 1980, [42]: 4 teksten: n ervan heet Silence?; Markgraf 1962, 132-134; Yates 1967TWENTIETH, 307-308.
Where Do We Go from
Here?
Description: article
Note: original title From a Starting Point
Date: 1963
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 13 folder 11-14
Publication: Cage 1963c
Literature: Thorman 2002, 210.
White on Blanco for O.P.
Description: poem?
Date: 1980
Dedication: for Octavio Paz
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1980k.
Wishful Thinking
Description: mesostic on Richard K Winslow
Date: between 1979 and 1982
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983g.
Wrights Oberlin House Restored by E. Johnson
Description: mesostic on Ellen Johnson
Date: between 1973 and 1978
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1979s.
Writing through
Finnegans Wake
Description: mesostics on James Joyce
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Date: early August 1976-May 1977 [*** or 1978: in Bargeen 1977a Cage says he is still working on 1st and 2nd time, Cage/Schnberger: just completed]
Sources: New York, John Cage Trust
Publication: Cage 1978i
Literature: Cage 1979c, 133-136; Cage 1980e; Mac Low 1980, [47]-[48]; Rohde 1984; Thorman 2002, 207.
Writing for the Second
Time through Finnegans Wake
Description: mesostics on James Joyce
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Date: 1976-1978 [***in Bargeen 1977a Cage says he is still working on 1st and 2nd time, Cage/Schnberger: just completed]
First performance: possibly October 4, 1977
Sources: New York, John Cage Trust; facsimile in Cage 1982k, p. 28
Publication: Cage 1978h
Literature: Cage 1979c, 133-136; Cage 1980e; Hannes 1993; Schning 1982; Thorman 2002, 109, 111-112, 207, 211.
Writing for the Third
Time through Finnegans Wake
Description: mesostics on James Joyce
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Date: 1979
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none
Literature: Cage 1980e; Thorman 2002, 210.
Writing for the Fourth
Time through Finnegans Wake
Description: mesostics
Model: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. New York: Viking, 1939
Date: 1979-1980
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983h
Literature: Cage 1980e; Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 8; Thorman 2002, 211.
Writing for the Fifth Time through Finnegans Wake. See Muoyce.
Writing through a Text by Chris Mann
Description: mesostics
Model: Chris Mann, [Untitled] [not identical with Eight Whiskus]
Date: October 1984
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: none.
Writing through Die Verwandlung I
Description: mesostics on Franz Kafka
Model: Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung,
1916
Date: 1983; completed before or during May 1983
Dedication: for Dore Ashton
Note: in German
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1990WRITING
Literature: Thorman 2002, 211.
Writing through Howl
Description: mesostics on Allen Ginsberg: 1. Writing for the First Time through Howl; 2. Writing for the Second Time through Howl; 3. Writing for the Third Time through Howl; 4. Writing for the Fourth Time through Howl; 5. Writing for the Fifth Time through Howl; 6. Writing for the Sixth Time through Howl; 7. Writing for the Seventh Time through Howl; 8. Writing for the Eighth Time through Howl; 9. Writing for the Ninth Time through Howl
Model: Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), Howl. In Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems. San Francisco, California: City Lights Books, 1956, 9-20
Date: January-April 1984
Dedication: for Allen Ginsberg on his sixtieth birthday
Sources: New York, estate of John Cage
Publication: Cage 1986f
Literature: Thorman 2002, 111, 180, 211.
Writing through The Agenbite of Outwit
Description: acrostics on Marshall McLuhan
Model: Marshall McLuhan, The Agenbite of Outwit, Location 1, no. 1 (Spring 1963), 41-44
Date: 1992?
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1993i.
Writing through the
Bible
Description: mesostics on Jehovah
Note: original title Writing through the Five Books of Moses
Model: the Bible
Date: 1983-, unfinished
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983UNTITLEDNNB; first two stanzas included in Cage/Murphy 1985
Literature: Cage/Sumner, Burch, and Sumner 1986, 15-16.
Writing through the
Cantos
Description: mesostics on Ezra Pound
Model: Ezra Pound, The Cantos of Ezra Pound. New York: New Directions, 1948; revised edition London: Faber & Faber, 1954
Date: between 1979 and 1982
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1983i; Thorman 2002, 111, 211.
Writing through
Ulysses. See Muoyce II.
Writings through the Essay: On the Duty of
Civil Disobedience
Note: also known as Essay
Description: eighteen*** mesostics on Messe des pauvres
Model: Henry David Thoreau, Essay on
the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Date: January-February 1985
First reading: possibly October 15, 1986
Sources: present location unknown
Publication: Cage 1991W (excerpt); Cage1998c
Literature: Cage/Retallack 1996, 141; Mehring 2003; REL?Schning 1987JOHN/46-47; Thorman 2002, ix, 7, 92,
111, 113, 160, 163, 179-185, 196, 203, 207.
A Year from Monday
Description:
collection of writings
Date:
Spring-December 1966
Sources: Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University,
Olin Library, collection 1000-72, box 14 folder 6-8, 11
Publication: Cage
1967o
Literature: