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Music for piano, 4-19
- Title
- Music for piano, 4-19 / [John Cage].
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Publication
- 1953 May, c1960.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 16 p. of ms. music; 22 cm. and smaller.
- Uniform Title
- Music, piano, no. 4-19
- Suite for five (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Music, no. 4-19
- Suite for two.
- Suite for five in space and time.
- Subjects
- Note
- Holograph, signed, in ink.
- Used for the dance Suite for five (original title: Suite for five in space and time, shortened after first performance), choreography by Merce Cunningham. Originally composed of eight sections, two sections were omitted after the first performance. A solo for Carolyn Brown, originally performed in 1958 in the duet version of this dance (Suite for two), was afterwards added to Suite for five and performed as one of its seven sections thereafter. (Cf. Dictionary of the dance collection.)
- Dance first performed by Merce Cunningham and Company, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., May 18, 1956. First New York performance on Jan. 12, 1957, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Cf. Dictionary of the dance collection.)
- Dedication on p. 1: For Eta Harich-Schneider.
- At bottom of p. 1: c1960 by Henmar Press Inc.
- At end: N.Y.C. May 1953.
- John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.
- Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 227
- OCLC
- NYPG95-C74
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Title
- Music for piano, 4-19 / [John Cage].
- Imprint
- 1953 May, c1960.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Harich-Schneider, Eta.Brown, Carolyn, 1927-Cunningham, Merce.
- Added Title
- Suite for five (Choreographic work : Cunningham)Suite for two.
- Research Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 227 Public service copyJPB 94-24 Folder 198 Originals -- Permission required