| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Ojai, California. Completed January 15, 1934 |
| Instrumentation: | Three unspecified instruments |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | |
| Dedicated to: | Pauline Schindler |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6704 © 1960 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph, signed, in ink - 5 p.) in New York Public Library |
| Composed in Ojai, northwest of Los Angeles. The ranges of the three instruments are specified as: I: d' - d"'; II: a - a"; III: d - d". The title-page of the manuscript score contains 24 measures of an unidentified work labeled "soprano-adagio.". Page 5 contains 7 measures of an unidentified work for brass and two 12-tone rows used in its composition. The Composition for 3 Voices is a chromatic composition dealing with the problem of keeping repetitions of individual tones of the twenty-five tone ranges of all three instruments as far apart as possible. Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; Paul van Emmerik's A John Cage Compendium; New York Public Library online catalog; David Revill: The Roaring Silence; Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage: Writer - Previously uncollected pieces |