Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[anne wellmer <>]

thank you ralph, this helps me too :) 

best wishes from berlin to berlin * anne

On 15 May 2017, at 11:00, Ralph Lichtensteiger <> wrote:

Dear Ninh,

it would really help to have the entire context of the line 'Number those of each description that are favorites' !

But I assume that John Cage is trying to give something like 'poetic licence' to the performer.

'poetic licence' = license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer, or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.

and/or = the act by a writer or poet of changing facts or rules to make a story or poem more interesting or effective:

all the best from old Berlin, 

Ralph Lichtensteiger

http://www.lichtensteiger.net/artstream.html

On May 13, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Lê Quan Ninh wrote:

The sentence I really don’t understand because of its construction is : « Number those of each description that are favorites ». 

Ninh