Five Songs for Contralto



Category: Musical composition
Dated: July 1938 in Seattle, Washington
Instrumentation: voice and piano
Duration: 8'
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to:
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 6710 © 1960 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: score (holograph, signed, in ink - 21 p.) at New York Public Library


Cage describes these songs as "Chromatic songs employing unorthodox uses of twelve-tone composing means". Texts by E.E.Cummings. Titles of the songs: 1. Little four paws 2. Little Christmas tree 3. In Just 4. hist whist 5. Another comes (Tumbling-hair) .