| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Ca.1935 Santa Monica, Calif. |
| Instrumentation: | for piano |
| Duration: | 4' (2'+2') |
| Premiere and performer(s): | |
| Dedicated to: | --- |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6813 © 1974 by Henmar Press. Also published in "John Cage: Pianoworks (1935-1948)", Edition Peters 67830 © ?. |
| Manuscript: | Score (Holograph in pencil, signed - 4 p. Folder 21), Sketches for the 1974 revision (holograph sketches in black and blue ink and black and brown pencil, written on a stenographer's pad - 33 lvs. with 7 manuscript pages. Folder 22) |
| Titles of the pieces: I - Slowly; II - Quite fast. The pieces use only flats as accidentals and have no markings for phrasing and dynamics.
They are constructed in a way, using the twelve-note row as the source for small motifs. These are played at the very
beginning and are not transposed or rhythmically modified. The repetitions produce a work which
has absolutely nothing in common with other serial music being composed in those years. The work was revised in 1974. Sources: New York Public Library online catalog; David Revill: The Roaring Silence; Wolfgang Thein: Liner notes of CD: MDG 613 0793-2 |