Solo for Voice 2



Category: Musical composition
Dated: Stony Point, [N.Y.], 1960, July
Instrumentation: Solo voice or chorus
Duration: Indeterminate
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to:
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 6751 © 1960 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Score: title page, instructions, pages with dots (holograph, signed, in ink - 3+5 lvs. Folder 269); Directions concerning publication (typescript with annotations by an unidentified hand in pencil - 1 lf. Folder 270), both in New York Public Library


This is a composition indeterminate of its performance. Some of the material consists of tranparencies. By superimposition of these a singer (or several singers) create a program of desired time-length. The work may be performed as a solo or with one or more parts of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra, with Fontana Mix, Cartridge Music or with Song Books.
The material of Solo for Voice 2 was also used for the composition of Solo for Voice 45 from Song Books.

Sources: New York Public Library online catalog; Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage: Writer - Previously uncollected pieces