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Title Notebook page, reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 35–36
Maker George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
Date 26 October 1958
Type sketches and materials
Location Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 2

Possibly a record of an assignment given in John Cage’s experimental composition course, George Brecht’s notes under the heading “Requirements for the System” seem to define the predominant qualities of his event scores: maximum generality, maximum flexibility, maximum economy.

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Brecht, George. Notebook page, reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 35–36, 26 October 1958. Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 2. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/384/.

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