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Title Notebook page showing draft of Time-Table Music (1963), reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 105–7
Maker George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
Date July 1959
Type sketches and materials
Location Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 3

George Brecht’s several drafts of the event score Time-Table Music from July 1959, which he performed with his experimental-composition classmates at Grand Central Station, shows the artist’s careful editing aimed at making his instructions as simple and direct as possible. Time-Table Music (1963) was the first score Brecht signed and dated in his notebooks, and the first to be typewritten on a card. It was also one of Brecht’s first scores to circulate in print, appearing in a 1961 issue of the literary magazine Kulchur. Brecht revisited the concept in April 1961 to create the slightly revised score Time-Table Event; both appear in Water Yam (1963).

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Brecht, George. Notebook page showing draft of Time-Table Music (1963), reprinted in George Brecht—Notebooks, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 105–7, July 1959. Getty Research Institute, item 92-B17341, vol. 3. 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/388/.

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