Re: A question about c ¢omposed imp rovisation for One-Sided Drums …

Dear Ninh,

it would really help to have the entire context of the line 'Number  
those of each description that are favorites' !

But I assume that John Cage is trying to give something like 'poetic  
licence' to the performer.

'poetic licence' = license or liberty taken by a poet, prose writer,  
or other artist in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or  
fact, in order to produce a desired effect.
and/or = the act by a writer or poet of changing facts or rules to  
make a story or poem more interesting or effective:

all the best from old Berlin,

Ralph Lichtensteiger
http://www.lichtensteiger.net/artstream.html


On May 13, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Lê Quan Ninh wrote:

> The sentence I really don’t understand because of its construction  
> is : « Number those of each description that are favorites ».
> Ninh