Primitive



Category: Musical composition
Dated: December 24, 1942, New York City
Instrumentation: Prepared piano
Duration: 4'30"
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to: ---
Choreography: Wilson Williams
Published: Edition Peters 66756 © 1977 by Henmar Press. Also published in "John Cage - Prepared Piano Music, Volume 1 ¤ 1940-47", Edition Peters 67886a © 2000
Manuscript: Score (holograph in ink - 7p.); instructions for duplication (typescript - 1 lf.), both in New York Public Library


One of many works for dance, this one choreographed by Wilson Williams, using a constant rhythm as well as 'minimal music-like' repetitions along most of the composition.