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The Getty Research Institute has published 'The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975', a digital publication focused on experimental scores and the role of notation across several art forms. The project is presented as a Getty publication and is credited to editors Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks.
According to the publication’s cover page, 'The Scores Project' brings together introductory essays and focused entries on a sequence of works made between 1950 and 1975. The table of contents identifies pieces by Morton Feldman, John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Benjamin Patterson, La Monte Young, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Yvonne Rainer, Alison Knowles, Mieko Shiomi, and Allan Kaprow. The publication is organized around experimental notation rather than around a single medium, linking music, art, poetry, and dance through the format of the score.
Among the works listed is Benjamin Patterson’s 'Paper Piece' from 1960, which appears as one of the project’s individual entries. The Getty’s social post pointing to the publication highlighted Patterson’s work and directed readers to learn more about it alongside other experimental scores. The project also includes 'An Anthology of Chance Operations' edited by La Monte Young, George Brecht’s 'Drip Music (Drip Event)' from 'Water Yam', and Yvonne Rainer’s 'We Shall Run'.
The publication is framed as a Getty Research Institute title and is available in multiple formats, including PDF, EPUB, and paperback. The page credits the Getty Research Institute as publisher and lists copyright for the J. Paul Getty Trust in 2025. It also notes that the text is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, while images are excluded from that license and remain subject to rights holders’ permissions.
The contents page shows that the project was edited by Gallope, Harren, and Hicks and includes contributions from Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, John Hicks, Nancy Perloff, George E. Lewis, Benjamin Piekut, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Emily Ruth Capper. The entries track a sequence of works dating from Morton Feldman’s 'Intersection 3' in 1953 to Allan Kaprow’s 'Routine' from 1973–75, with Mieko Shiomi’s 'Spatial Poem' spanning 1965–75.
The publication page also provides citation information for the book and the web version, identifying the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles as the publisher of the 2025 volume. The project’s structure, from cover to object index and contributors’ list, positions experimental scores as a shared archive for several strands of postwar avant-garde practice.
