Eighty



Category: Musical composition
Dated: New York, February 1992
Instrumentation: Orchestra of 80 musicians: 7 alto flutes, 7 English horns, 7 clarinets, 7 trumpets and strings (16-14-12-10-0)
Duration: 30'
Premiere and performer(s): Not yet performed? (as of 2004)
Dedicated to: for András Wilheim
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 67467 © 1992 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Sketches (notes on paper and computer print-out of time-bracket with holograph notes, dated January 6, 1992 - 3 p.); 80 parts (Galley proof with manuscript annotations in an unidentified hand - 159 p. - incomplete?); Draft of performance notes for Sixty-eight and Eighty (Holograph in ink, with additional manuscript notations in an unidentified hand - 1 lf.), all in New York Public Library


Every player has the same succession of notes, notated in time brackets. Every time bracket contains one note. The work should be performed without conductor.

Sources: New York Public Library online catalog; Rob Haskins: "An Anarchic Society of Sounds: The Number Pieces of John Cage"; Edition Peters online catalog