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Incidental music for the Marriage at the Eiffel Tower

Title: Incidental music for the Marriage at the Eiffel Tower / John Cage.
Author: Cage, John.
Publication: 1936 [i.e. 1939], c1960.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Notated music	Supervised use	JPB 95-3 Folder 26	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Description

1 ms. score ([50] p.); 32 cm.

Uniform Title

Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (Choreographic work : Bird)

Alternative Title

Marriage at the Eiffel Tower.
Hilarious dance concert.

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Note

Holograph, signed, in pencil and ink.
For two pianos and percussion.
Contains only the music composed by Cage.
First performed with additional music by Henry Cowell and George Frederick McKay, and with choreography by Bonnie Bird at "Hilarious Dance Concert," Cornish School (Seattle, WA), March 24, 1939.
Material includes some parts.
Title from verso of cue After exit.
At bottom of cue Dirge, funeral march & eulogy: c1960 by Henmar Press Inc.
At top of cue But who are these two gentlemen: The rhythm notated is that of the dancers.
John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Contents

You are on the 1st platform of the Eiffel Tower -- Wedding march: Rubbish music -- Everybody is deeply moved -- Bravo (after Trouville Bathing Beauty) -- Massacre -- Photographer's chase -- After child -- Radio grams -- Radiograms (cont.) pt. 2 -- Lion -- Help it's biting me! -- Dirge, funeral march & eulogy -- 3 o'clock and that ostrich isn't back yet -- Quadrille -- Oof, what a dance! -- Return of the ostrich -- But who are these two gentlemen who have just come in time to upset the photographer again? -- Just in time -- The dealer and collector leave the Eiffel Tower -- Wedding march (exit) -- Closing time! (After exit) -- Toccata.

Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 26

OCLC

NYPG94-C6649

Author

Cage, John.

Title

Incidental music for the Marriage at the Eiffel Tower / John Cage.

Imprint

1936 [i.e. 1939], c1960.

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Added Author

Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963. Mariés de la Tour Eiffel.

Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965.

McKay, George Frederick, 1899-1970.

Bird, Bonnie.

Added Title

Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (Choreographic work : Bird)

Research Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 26 Public service copy

JPB 94-24 Folder 23 Originals -- Permission required

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