Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rob Haskins <>]

NB stands for "nota bene"—"note well"—and might only be there to remind the performer that those particular pitches are to be muted and not played conventionally.

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On Jan 9, 2013, at 1:13 PM, Panayiotis Sialmas <> wrote:

Hello,

My name is Panagiotis Sialmas. I am a third year undergraduate student at Huddersfield university. I will perform John Cage's Music for Piano 2 this coming Friday 11th. In the score Cage sometimes uses the instruction (NB) above the muted notes, but I don't know what this stands for and there are no instructions in the performance notes that explain. Can you help?

Kind regards,

Panos.