Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["DR. MICHAEL FOWLER" <>]

I've always interpreted this as 'near bridge' which gives a different color to the muting than anywhere else on the string. I can't remember if this is stipulated in some other text or writing or whether I just appropriated such an interpretation

mdf

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Philip Thomas wrote:

Having seen the score, I'm not sure either though. The 'nota bene' explanation doesn't work because it occurs repeatedly on only a certain number of notes, whilst there are other muted notes without the indication. It looks like a particular indication aimed at the type of muting but there's no explanation in the score.
Philip

On 9 Jan 2013, at 19:35, "Rob Haskins" <<mailto:>> wrote:

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 <<mailto:>> 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.

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