| 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
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| Dedicated to: |
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| 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 |