| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | December 1952, NYC |
| Instrumentation: | Piano |
| Duration: | 3'30" |
| Premiere and performer(s): | December 16, 1952 at Brooklyn High School, New York, performed by John Cage, piano |
| Other performances: | |
| Dedicated to: | Jo Anne Melsher |
| Choreography: | 'Paths and Events' by JoAnne Melsher Merce Cunningham: Suite for Five in Space and Time / Suite for Five / Suite for Two / Stillness (1956) Solo Suite in Space and Time (1953) Minutiae (1954) |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6729 © 1960 by Henmar Press. |
| Manuscript: | Holograph, signed, in ink (6 p.) used for the published score. Holograph, signed, in ink and pencil (7 or 9 p.) with additional timing cues. Both located in New York Public Library |
| The composition consists of six pages with five systems each. The notes correspond to imperfections on
the paper upon which the piece was written. Sources: New York Public Library online catalog; Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage: Writer - Previously uncollected pieces); David Revill: The Roaring Silence; Paul van Emmerik: A Cage Compendium; C.F.Peters catalog; David Vaughan: Merce Cunningham - Fifty Years |