| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | New York City, May 1953 |
| Instrumentation: | Piano |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | |
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| Dedicated to: | Louise Lippold |
| Choreography: | Louise Lippold; Merce Cunningham: Suite for Five in Space and Time / Suite for Five / Suite for Two / Stillness (1956), Solo Suite in Space and Time (1953) and Minutiae (1954) |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6730 © 1960 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph in ink - 4 p.) in New York Public Library |
| 4 pages of music, divided by irregular strokes with groups of notes. Dynamics are left to the performer.
Tone production was determined using chance operations, the notes themselves by paper imperfections. Sources: New York Public Library online catalog; Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; Paul van Emmerik: A Cage Compendium; David Revill: The Roaring Silence; C.F.Peters catalog; Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage: Writer - Previously uncollected pieces |