Silence

Über

Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage, first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961. The contents of the book is as follows:
"Foreword"
"Manifesto"
"The Future of Music: Credo"
"Experimental Music"
"Experimental Music: Doctrine"
"Composition as Process", essay in three parts:
"Changes"
"Indeterminacy"
"Communication"
"Composition", essay in two parts:
"To Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music of Changes and Imaginary Landscape No. 4"
"To Describe the Process of Composition Used in Music for Piano 21–52"
"Forerunners of Modern Music"
"History of Experimental Music in the United States"
"Erik Satie"
"Edgar Varèse"
"Four Statements on the Dance"
"Goal: New Music, New Dance"
"Grace and Clarity"
"In This Day..."
"2 Pages, 122 Words on Music and Dance"
"On Robert Rauschenberg, Artist, and His Work"
"Lecture on Nothing"
Note that in the "Afternote" to the Lecture on Nothing Cage states that it was first delivered in 1949 or 50. Most sources give the date of 1950.