Music for Piano 3



Category: Musical composition
Dated: New York City, June 1953
Instrumentation: Piano
Duration: indeterminate
Premiere and performer(s):
Other performances:
Dedicated to: Morton Feldman
Choreography: 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 6731 © 1960 by Henmar Press
Manuscript:


1 page of music with a total of 7 tones. Tempo and 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