Jazz Study



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1942?
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: 3'
Premiere and performer(s): Probably 1992 by Joshua Pierce
Dedicated to: ---
Choreography: ---
Published: in "Works for Piano, Prepared Piano and Toy Piano, Volume 4: 1933-1952". Edition Peters 68030 © 2005.
Manuscript: Score (photocopy of copyist's manuscript - 2 p. + 1 envelope) in New York Public Library


Jazz Study is of doubtful authorship. A note on the envelope says: "Doris Denison [sic] sent to JC 6/29/89. She says it is JC. He has no memory of it.".
The use of jazz elements is quite un-Cage, though the repetition of a limited number of musical elements is typical of Cage's compositions from this period.