Christian Wolff
CUES: Writings & Conversations

Edition MusikTexte, Koln
http://www.musiktexte.de

Köln 1999, English-German edition, 544 pages.

Contents

Preface

• Frederic Rzewski: The Algebra of Everyday Life

In General and on Own Work

• Choice and Necessity. At work Immobility in Motion. New and Electronic Music
• Precise Actions under Variously Indeterminate Conditions. On Form
• "... something hazardous with which we may try ourselves". Questions
• Whole New Areas of Unpredictability. Electricity and Music
• Taking Chances. From a conversation with Victor Schonfield
• "... let the listeners be just as free as the players". Fragments to make up an interview
• What Are We Doing? Conversation with Ildi Ivanji
• "There is no such thing as nothing". Conversation with Walter Zimmermann
• Using the Past to Serve the Present. On political texts and new music
• Under the Influence. On John Cage
• Before the Fact. On notation
• "...can't shake Webern's influence". Conversation with Gerald Gable
• Open to Whom and to What. On the theory of open form in new music
• Revolutionary Noise. Floating rhythm and experimental percussion
• What is our work? On experimental music now
• Quiet Music. On a Composition Seminar in Boswil
• In a Kind of No-Man's Land. Conversation with Cole Gagne
• "Anything you want to know you can know!" Conversation with Markus Trunk
• Changes and Continuities. Sketch of a Statement
• On My Work. Statement
• Free to Exercise Identity. Music-Work-Experiement-Politics

About Others' Work

• A Music with Real Life in It. Re Charles Ives
• Randomly Fixed Points. On the music of Anton Webern
• Anarchic Individualism and Socialism. Letter to Heinz-Klaus Metzger
• Benign Ghosts. On John Cage
• Burdocks. For Merce
• "... then some music was really happening."
• John Cage, Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings I-V
• Tender and Tough as Nails. Three Statements on Morton Feldman
• The Sound Doesn't Look Back. On Morton Feldmans Piano Piece 1952
• "... how he made all the difference." Thinking of David Tudor
• Towards a New Unity. Rzewski's The People United Will never Be Defeated
• Moral Issues and Musical Practices. Briefly on Cornelius Cardew and John Cage.
• On the Death of Cornelius Cardew
• A Dimension of Perfectly Ordinary Reality. On Keith Rowe's music
• Surprise and Discovery. Parker and Prévost
• A Drama of Struggle. On Dieter Schnebels Marsyas
• Closely Listened To. For Ernstalbrecht Stiebler

Classics

• Discontinuities. Orestes by Euripides

Prose Scores

• Prose Collection
• Instrumentalist(s)-Singer(s)

Program Notes

• String Trio
• For Prepared Piano
• For Magnetic Tape I
• For Piano I
• Suite (I)
• Duo for Pianists I
• Duo for Pianists II
• For Pianist
• For Five or Ten Players
• In Between Pieces
• For One, Two or Three People
• Septet
• Pairs
• Stones
• Burdocks
• Lines
• Accompaniments
• Changing the System
• Exercises 1-18
• Bread and Roses
• The Death of Mother Jones
• Braverman Music
• Hay Una Mujer Desaparecida
• Preludes 1-11
• Isn't This a Time
• Exercise 22 (Bread and Roses for John)
• Piano Song (I am a Dangerous Woman)
• Eisler Ensemble Pieces
• Peace Marches
• "I Like to Think of Harriet Tubman"
• For Morty (1987) & Digger Song
• From Leaning Forward
• Exercise 27
• Emma
• Mayday Materials
• Malvina
• Rosas
• For Si
• Look She Said
• Tuba Song
• Aina gonna study war no more
• Merce
• Peggy
• Flutist and Guitarist
• Two Pianists
• Responsibility
• Memory
• Aarau Songs
• Percussionist Songs
• Spring
• Pieces for Julius
• Trio III
• Violist and Percussionist
• John, David

List of Works

Index of Names

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