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The page by Ann Noel resembles the "I" painting held by the Sackner Archive. No two I's are typographically repeated in this work. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents His music scores were dubbed "new simplicity' & this score is an example of that genre. Internet: How are these new cases of Henning Christiansen? The something quite very easy to describe. The first movement of his "Perceptive constructions' for example a chord in different (carefully planned) design butt out to the listener. The items each time exactly 10 seconds. The breaks items also exactly 10 seconds. So the rational design: a complete mechanical arrangement of the materials. Many might say: u-organic, un-musical. And it's probably also intended by Henning Christiansen's side. His music, with its "objective" character and its rationality rebellion against Cage-school zenagtige given himself up to randomness. But it is also, and primarily, a reaction against the particular kind of chance called 'natural' musical and motor responses, which in turn is reflected by the composer's subjective-private feeling tension. He puts a mechanism in time, there should be no urgent...

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This book includes five pages of calligraphic markings by Zarzella and a long interview of Young by Richard Kostelanetz. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This is a collective score by 57 authors for a piano and slide performance. Each contributed a card; these cards are played without interruption, some performed if possible on the piano and others displayed in silence. In the introduction, Lombardi cites historic antecedents to such collaborations. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.