| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | San Francisco, March-April 1941 |
| Instrumentation: | Percussion quartet |
| Duration: | 15' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | May 14, 1941 at the California Club Auditorium in San Francisco, performed by Xenia Cage, Doris Dennison, Lou Harrison and Margaret Jansen, conducted by John Cage. |
| Dedicated to: | 'to Xenia for our anniversary' |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6794 © 1970 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph in pencil - 33 p.); Parts (holograph in ink. Contains emendations in various hands - 25 p.) Notes (holograph in black and blue pencil - 1 lf.) all in New York Public Library. |
| The rhythmic structure is 24 times 24 measures. In each parts the phrase structure follows differrent
proportion series, each of them being a rotation of the other: player 4: [8,2,4,5,3,2], player 1: [2,8,2,4,5,3],
player 3: [3,2,8,2,4,5] and player 2: [5,3,2,8,2,4]. The instruments used are rattles, drums, tin cans, claves, cowbells, lion's roar, cymbal, ratchet, teponaxtle, quijades, cricket caller and conch shell. |