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[Sketches for mesostics
- Title
- [Sketches for mesostics / John Cage].
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Publication
- [1984-1985]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 788 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
- Description
- [34] leaves; 28 cm.
- Uniform Title
- First meeting of the Satie society. Variations with interludes and variations (Sketches)
- Alternative Title
- First meeting of the Satie society. Variations with interludes and variations (Sketches)
- Subjects
- Note
- Typescript with holograph notes red, black, and blue ink.
- Contains worksheets for the mesostics of Variations with interludes and variations.
- This work is a renga, a mesostic using five source texts. The five mesostic source texts became a single renga by letting I Ching chance operations determine which of the five provides the first line, which the second, etc. The Variations of the title represent the man, the Interludes his work. (see performance notes)
- John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.
- Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 788
- OCLC
- NYPG95-C1002
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Title
- [Sketches for mesostics / John Cage].
- Imprint
- [1984-1985]
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
- Research Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 788 Public service copyJPB 94-24 Folder 657 Originals -- Permission required