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

thank you ralph, this helps me too :) 
best wishes from berlin to berlin * anne

On 15 May 2017, at 11:00, Ralph Lichtensteiger <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
> 
>