| Category: |
Musical composition |
| Dated: |
Late 1943 |
| Instrumentation: |
Prepared piano |
| Duration: |
2'30" |
| Premiere and performer(s): |
April 5, 1944 at the Studio Theatre in New York City |
| Other performances: |
* April 12-13, 1950. Connecticut College for Women, New London, CT. John Cage, piano. Performed with Cunningham choreography
* November 26, 1950. Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association, New York. John Cage, piano. Performed with Cunningham
choreography |
| Dedicated to: |
Valerie Bettis |
| Choreography: |
Merce Cunningham: Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1944) |
| Published: |
Edition Peters 6722 © 1960 by Henmar Press.
Also published in "John Cage - Prepared Piano Music, Volume 1 ¤ 1940-47", Edition Peters
67886a © 2000 |
| Manuscript: |
Score including table of preparations (holograph, signed, in ink - 2 p.); unused title page (holograph, signed, in ink - 1 lf.)
both at New York Public Library |