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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 792	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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[21] leaves; 28 cm.

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Holograph in pencil and ink.
Sketches for mesostics.
Inspired by Erik Satie's Sports et divertissements.
Also contains t.p. and note about For N.Z., composed in New York City, December 1985. (N.Z. is Nicholas Zurbrugg who sent Cage a text by Sammuel Beckett.)
The final leaf contains a work signed by John Cage entitled Perpetual tango, dated 2/17/84, New York City. It is based on a similarly titled work by Satie in Sports et divertissements.
John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 792

OCLC

NYPG95-C1006

Author

Cage, John.

Title

[Sketches for Sports / John Cage].

Imprint

[1984-1989]

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Cage, John. For N.Z.

Cage, John. Perpetual tango.

Satie, Erik, 1866-1925. Sports et divertissements.

Zurbrugg, Nicholas.

Research Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 792 Public service copy

JPB 94-24 Folder 661 Originals -- Permission required