John Cage and Peter Yates: Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics

Martin Iddon

doi:10.1017/9781108628815

The correspondence between composer John Cage and Peter Yates represents the third and final part of Cage's most significant exchanges of letters, following those with Pierre Boulez and with David Tudor. Martin Iddon's book is the first volume to collect the complete extant correspondence with his critical friend, thus completing the 'trilogy' of Cage correspondence published by Cambridge. By bringing together more than 100 letters, beginning in 1940 and continuing until 1971, Iddon reveals the dialogue within which many of Cage's ideas were first forged and informed, with particular focus on his developing attitudes to music criticism and aesthetics. The correspondence with Yates represents precisely, in alignment with Cage's fastidious neatness, the part of his letter writing in which he engages most directly with the last part of his famous tricolon, 'composing's one thing, performing's another, listening's a third'.

‘This is the third book that Martin Iddon has contributed to Arnold Whittall’s influential series at Cambridge University Press … Iddon is a footnote virtuoso where every individual mentioned is given full details - helpfully on the page - and there are many examples of ingenious investigation.’

Peter Dickinson Source: Musical Opinion

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John Cage and Peter Yates
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Music since 1900 - Series page
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John Cage and Peter Yates - Title page
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Correspondence on Music Criticism and Aesthetics
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Note on the Text
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
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1 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [Thursday] [Summer 1940?], handwritten [source: PYP]
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2 - John Cage (288 17th Avenue, San Francisco) to Peter Yates, December 24, 1940, typewritten [source: PYP]
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3 - John Cage (288 17th Avenue, San Francisco) to Peter Yates, January 13, 1941 typewritten [source: PYP]
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4 - John Cage (288 17th Avenue, San Francisco) to Peter Yates, January 18, 1941, handwritten [source: PYP]
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A1 - John Cage, ‘Organized Sound’ draft, January 1941, typewritten [source: PYP]
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A2 - Peter Yates, ‘Organized Sound: Notes in the History of a New Disagreement: Between Sound and Tone,’ California Arts & Architecture (March 1941), 18 and 42
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5 - John Cage (126A Filbert [San Francisco]) to Peter Yates, undated [before May 14, 1941], handwritten [source: PYP]
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6 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated, typewritten [ca. October/November 1947] [source: PYP]
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7 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. December 1947], typewritten [source: PYP]
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8 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. September 1948], handwritten [source: PYP]
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A3 - Peter Yates, ‘Music,’ Arts & Architecture (September 1948), 20 and 22
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9 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. October/November 1948], typewritten [source: PYP]
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A4 - Peter Yates, ‘Music,’ Arts & Architecture (November 1948), 18–20 (20)
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10 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. November/December 1948], typewritten [source: PYP]
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11 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [ca. December 1948], handwritten [source: PYP]
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12 - John Cage to Peter Yates, undated [early 1949?], handwritten [source: PYP]
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A5 - Peter Yates, ‘Music,’ Arts & Architecture (April 1949), 21–23
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13 - Peter Yates (1735 Micheltorena Street, Los Angeles) to John Cage, March 14, 1953, typewritten [source: JCC]
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A6 - Peter Yates, ‘Music,’ Arts & Architecture (July 1953), 32–34
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14 - John Cage (326 Monroe St, NYC) to Peter Yates, August 4, 1953, typewritten [source: PYP]
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