| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | 1943 |
| Instrumentation: | I: Quartet for percussion (12 tom-toms) - II: Duet for voice and prepared piano |
| Duration: | I: 5' - II: 7' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | |
| Dedicated to: | --- |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6746 (I) and 6747 (II) © 1960 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Workleaf (1 lf.), collection Gelbe Musik, Berlin; Score (parts I and II; holograph signed in ink - 15 p.); Sketches of other part, apparantly rejected (holograph in pencil - 2 p.), both in New York Public Library |
| Both parts may be played seperately or together and in any order. Cage planned more parts to be added
(see: A Room). The voice in the Duet should use unconventional methods of voice production. The sounds themselves are to be determined by the singer. The Quartet has complex rhythms and is prevailingly quiet, varying between p and ppp. |