Research Catalog
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.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving image | Use in library | VCASS 592 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- Series Statement
- 4 American composers ; 1
- Alternative Title
- Music circus
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Video recordings.
- 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
- SCSB-1378776
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library