Solo with obbligato accompaniment of two voices in canon, and six short inventions on the subjects of the solo



Category: Musical composition
Dated: April 5, 1934
Instrumentation: Any three or more instruments encompassing the range of g - g"
Duration: 15'
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to:
Choreography:
Published: Edition Peters 6752 © by Henmar Press 1963
Manuscript: Score (Holograph, signed, in ink - 16 p.) and score (holograph, signed , in ink with dynamics and instrumental indications added in pencil - 15 p.) both in New York Public Library


In these pieces, each voice is limited to a specific two-octave range. Like in similar pieces of this period Cage tries to keep repetitions of these tones as far apart aas possible. Once all twenty-five notes have appeared, another presentation begins, and so on, throughout the piece.
On the title page of the score is written: "Carmel, March 7, 1934"; At the end: "April 5, 1934".
The final part got an instrumentation in the revision of 1958 entitled "Six short inventions"