Contains sets of cassette recordings of traditional Irish music which are components of the music for Merce Cunningham's Fielding sixes (1980).
Title and performers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassettes and information provided by the John Cage Trust.
Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1318 no. 1: "F. 6's 1A - 2:50". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1318 no. 2: "F. 6's 2A - 2:15". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1318 no. 3: "F. 6's - 2:15". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1318 no. 4: "F. 6's 4A - 2:25". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1318 no. 5: "F. 6's 5A - 2:25". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1318 no. 6: "F. 6's 5A - 2:30". Based on the original order of the donor's inventory numbers, the cataloger considered cassette no. 3 to be [3A] and renamed cassette no. 6 from "5A" to [6A].
Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1319 no. 1: "Fielding Six 7A - 1'51". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1319 no. 2: "Fielding Sixes 8A - 2'22". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1319 no. 3: "Fielding Sixes 9A - 2'30". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1319 no. 4: "Fielding Sixes 10A - 3'39". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1319 no. 5: "Fielding Sixes 11A - 1'36". Handwritten note on original cassette *LTC-A 1319 no. 6: "Fielding Sixes 12A - 2'43".
John Cage's Improvisation IV is composed for "3 sets of 12 identical cassettes in play, all containing traditional Irish music played by Matt Malloy on flute and Paddy Glackin on fiddle." (John Cage Trust website, accessed May 22, 2015). The cataloger selected Fielding sixes 1A - 12A as the archival originals and representative set of cassettes based on the completeness of digital files. There are 3 additional sets of cassettes containing the flute music identical to nos. 7-12 of the archival original set, labeled Fielding sixes 7B - 12B, Fielding sixes 7C - 12C, and, Fielding sixes 7D - 12D.
Recorded in unidentified locations.
Sound quality is fair to mostly good; streaming file 1 is very muffled and nearly inaudible.