Ad Lib



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1943, New York City
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: 4'
Premiere and performer(s): February 14, 1943 at the Arts Club of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Piano by John Cage. Performed with the dance by Jean Erdman and Merce Cunningham
Dedicated to:
Choreography: Merce Cunningham and Jean Erdman: Ad Lib (1942)
Published: in "Works for Piano, Prepared Piano and Toy Piano, Volume 4: 1933-1952". Edition Peters 68030 © 2005.
Manuscript: Score (holograph, singned, in ink and pencil, including sketches and pencil annotations - 9 p.); Measures 1-80 (holograph in ink - 5p); Note to copyist regarding editing for publication (photocopy of holograph, edited by Richard Bunger, dated november 1977 - 4 lv.). All in New York Public Library


Initially this choreography was performed with music by Gregory Tucker (first performance: August 1, 1942).