The unavailable memory of



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1944
Instrumentation: Prepared piano
Duration: 2'
Premiere and performer(s): April 5, 1944 in the Studio Theatre in New York City, performed with the dance by Merce Cunningham
Dedicated to: ---
Choreography: Merce Cunningham: The Unavailable Memory Of (1944)
Published: Edition Peters 66764 © 1977 by Henmar Press. Also published in "John Cage - Prepared Piano Music, Volume 2 ¤ 1940-47", Edition Peters 67886b © 2000
Manuscript: Score, including table of preparations (holograph, signed, in ink - 2 p.); Notes concerning corrections and publication (holograph in ink and pencil - 2 lv.), both in New York Public Library


The composition was edited by Richard Bunger in 1977 (manuscript of this edition in New York Public Library).
The work is static and contemplative and is written entirely in the bass-clef. It consists of various arpeggiations using the same five pitches.