| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | January 1988 |
| Instrumentation: | Five voices or instruments or voices and instruments |
| Duration: | 5' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | June 6, 1988. Performance by John Cage, piano and the Kronos Quartet |
| Dedicated to: | Wilfried Brennecke and the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 67214 © 1988 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Draft (holograph in ink - 2 lv.); Worksheet (holograph sketch in ink - 1 lf.), both in New York Public Library. |
| One of Cage's early number pieces, which was composed for the 1988 Wittener Tage für neue
Kammermusik. Pitches and dynamics are set, but the instrumentation is free, provided one can play or sing the tones in the proper ranges. There is no overall score but just 5 single parts, each consisting of 5 lines and each line containing a maximum of 3 notes, placed in a system using time-brackets. Sources: New York Public Library online catalog; David Revill: The Roaring Silence; Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; Festival guide "Centrum Nieuwe Muziek Middelburg"; Rob Haskins: "An Anarchic Society of Sounds": The Number Pieces of John Cage |