| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Carmel California, April 5, 1934, and Stony Point, N.Y., 1958 |
| Instrumentation: | Alto flute, B flat clarinet, B flat trumpet, violin, 2 violas, cello |
| Duration: | 7' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | May 15, 1958 at Town Hall, New YorkCity (The 25-Year Rectrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage). Performance by Anahid Ajemian, violin. Burton Fisch and William Gromko, violas. Joan Brockway, cello. Andrew Lolya, alto flute. Melvyn Broiles, trumpet. Albert Kaufman, clarinet |
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| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6749 © 1963 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (2+7 p. Folder 247); 7 parts (holograph, signed, in ink - 32 p. Folder 248); Instructions concerning preparation of the manuscript for publication (typescript - 1 lf. Folder 249), all in New York Public Library |
| This is a rearrangement of part 2 of the Solo with Obbligato
Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo (1934).
They were arranged in 1958, with the assistance of David Tudor. In the 1962 C.F.Peters Catalog Cage explains that the work deals with the same problems as Composition for 3 Voices. All 3 voices (the original version of the inventions was written for 3 or more instruments) employ the same 25 tone range, making the limitations greater than in the Composition for 3 Voices. Sources: Martin Erdmann: Chronologisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Kompositionen, Schriften, Gespräche, Hörspiele, Bilder, Objekte und Filme (in 'Musik-Konzepte: John Cage II', Ed. Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn); Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage writer - previously uncollected pieces; New York Public Library online catalog |