Students of the song-class of the University College Ghent Conservatory directed Mireille Capelle

A kaleidoscope of music theatrical vocal inventiveness.

Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92, 1970) is a collection of short works by John Cage. It contains pieces of four kinds: songs or directions for a theatrical performance, both with or without electronics. The work explores a very wide variety of notation systems. Some Solos are given in standard notation, others employ a special brand of graphical notation (circles, lines, dots). Certain Solos consist only of instructions to the performer, i.e. what he or she should do and how.