A Year from Monday

1969 edition

A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings is a book by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912–1992), first published in 1967 by Wesleyan University Press. The book is a collection of essays, lectures and journal entries from 1961–1967. It contains the following works:

• "Foreword"
• "Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse)" (1965)
• "Diary: Emma Lake Music Workshop" (1965)
• "Seriously Comma" (1966)
• "Happy New Ears!" (1967)
• "Two Statements on Ives" (1967)
• "Mosaic" (1965)
• "Diary: Audience 1966" (1966)
• "Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse)" (continued 1966)
• "26 Statements Re Duchamp" (1963)
• "Jasper Johns: Stories and Ideas" (1964)
• "Miró in Third Person: 8 Statements" (1967)
• "Nam June Paik: A Diary" (1965)
• "Where Do We Go from Here?" (1963, previously published under the title "Dance Perspectives")
• "Juilliard Lecture" (1967)
• "Lecture on Commitment" (1967)
• "Rhythm Etc." (1966)
• "How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run" (1967)
• "Talk I" (1967)
• "Diary: How to Improve the World (you will only make matters worse)" (continued 1967)
• "Afterword" (1967)

See also

• List of compositions by John Cage

John Cage
Compositions	Imaginary Landscape No. 1–5 (1939–1952) Sonatas and Interludes (1946–48) Music of Changes (1951) 4′33″ (1952) Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1958) Variations (1958–67) Atlas Eclipticalis (1961–62) Cheap Imitation (1969) HPSCHD (1969) Song Books (1970) Etudes Australes (1974–75) Freeman Etudes (1977–90) Roaratorio (1979) Ryoanji (1983) Europeras (1987–91) Number Pieces (1987–92)
Books	Silence (1961) A Year from Monday (1968) Notations (1969) M (1973) Pour les oiseaux (1976) Empty Words (1979) X (1983) Anarchy (1988)
Related articles	Indeterminacy in music West Coast School Works for prepared piano
List of compositions by John Cage Category:Compositions by John Cage