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[Sketches concerning the orchestration of Cheap imitation
- Title
- [Sketches concerning the orchestration of Cheap imitation / John Cage].
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Publication
- [1970-1972?]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 473 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925.
- Description
- 1 ms. p.; 28 x 37 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Cheap imitation, orchestra (Sketches)
- Alternative Title
- Cheap imitation
- Subjects
- Note
- Holograph in red, black, and blue ink.
- Contains a list of instruments. Each instrument is followed by a different combination of four beats or rests.
- Verso contains fragmentary draft with corrections of an unidentifed prose work: "There is no peace music. There are lullabies, military marines, love, protest songs, sonatas, etc. There [sic] won't stop war or world problems. Intelligence & a regard for the Earth itself, neither music or any other form of pleasure or excitement, is required: A shift from power and profit for some to service & utilities for all..."
- From instruction page of completed work: The I Ching (64 related to appropriate numbers) was used to answer questions for each phrase of the piano solo, Cheap imitation, an imitation of Erik Satie's Socrate.
- John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.
- Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 473
- OCLC
- NYPG95-C594
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Title
- [Sketches concerning the orchestration of Cheap imitation / John Cage].
- Imprint
- [1970-1972?]
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Satie, Erik, 1866-1925. Socrate.
- Research Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 473 Public service copyJPB 94-24 Folder 417 Originals -- Permission required