57½" For a String Player



Category: Musical composition
Dated: at end: May 1953 NYC
Instrumentation: Any four stringed instrument
Duration: 57½"
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to: for June
Choreography: ---
Published: Not published seperately, but incorporated in 26'1.1499" for a stringplayer
Manuscript: Score (holograph (photocopy) with emendations in pencil - 6 p.) in New York Public Library.
Same material (photocopy) in Cornell University Library


Part of "The Ten Thousand Things". The notation does not refer to the sound to be produced, but to what is to be done - the location at which each string is to be stopped. Directions for vibrato, bowing pressure and its location are indicated.
At the end of the manuscript revised timing is given: 57.90036194"