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John Cage a music circus

Title
John Cage [videorecording] : a music circus / produced by Trans Atlantic Films for Channel Four Television Co., Inc.
Publication
New York, NY : Mystic Fire Video, c1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Greenaway, Peter.
  • Guest, Revel.
  • Cage, John.
  • Transatlantic Films.
  • Channel Four (Great Britain)
  • Mystic Fire Video, Inc.
Description
1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
Series Statement
4 American composers ; 1
Alternative Title
Music circus
Subjects
Note
  • On container: 4merican composers; Mystic Fire Video; Island Visual Arts; manufactured and distributed to the video trade by PolyGram Video.
  • Originally produced by: New York : Trans Atlantic Films and Channel 4, c1983, 1985.
  • "Based on a series of performances of music by John Cage to celebrate his 70th birthday at St. James Church, Islington, London, presented by the Almeida Theatre, Islington, London."
Credits (note)
  • Producer, Revel Guest ; director, Peter Greenaway.
System Details (note)
  • VHS.
Contents
No. 46 -- No. 4 -- No. 81 -- No. 32 -- 1940 Living room music percussion and speech quartet, words by Gertrude Stein -- No. 47 -- 1941 Double music percussion quartet -- No. 20 -- 1942 Forever and sunsmell voice with percussion duo, words by E.E. Cummings -- No. 24 -- 1947 Music for Marcel Duchamp ; music for prepared piano -- No. 7 -- 1948 Sonatas and interludes for prepared piano -- No. 6 -- 1955 Speech for five radios with newsreader articles to be read -- No. 16 -- 27 sounds manufactured in a kitchen -- 12 sounds manufactured by the human body -- 1958 Aria for solo voice to be sung in ten singing styles -- 1958 Music walk for one or more pianists --No. 36 -- 1959 Indeterminacy?0 one minute stories by John Cage with music tape-track by David Tudor. Courtesy of Folkways Records FM3704 -- 1960 Cartridge music for amplified small sounds -- 1964 Electronic music for piano ; piano solo with electronics -- 1970 Songbooks for one or more singers, each singing to independent programmes, which are not predetermined -- No. 40 -- 1976 Branches -- 1977 Inlets sound piece for conch shells for 3 players of water-filled conch shells and one conch player using circular breathing and the sound of fire -- 1979 Roaratorio an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake with prepared tapes, live musicians and a mesostic reading of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
ISBN
1561762377
OCLC
ocm38235455
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library