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Renga

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
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 512	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

Description

1 ms. score ([2], 12 p.); 44 cm.

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Note

Photocopy of typescript and manuscript.
"Score (361 drawings by Thoreau sometimes superimposed) and 78 parts (for any instruments and/or voices): to be played alone or (as an occasional piece) with Apartment house 1776 or some other 'musicircus' (live or recorded) appropriate to another occasion than the Bi-Centennial of the U.S.A..." -- from performance notes.
From general remarks: The seventy-eight who play Renga act on the suggestions of graphic notation. In western tradition, tones are musical when they are fixed with respect to their characteristics. In folk and oriental traditions tones are musical when they change pitch and quality in their course. Graphic notation suggests such changes.
John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 512

OCLC

NYPG96-C536

Author

Cage, John.

Title

Renga / John Cage.

Imprint

New York : Henmar Press, c1976.

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Added Author

Cage, John. Apartment house 1776.

Research Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 512 Public service copy

JPB 94-24 Folder 987 Originals -- Permission required