Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 leaf; 28 cm. + 12 x 27 cm.

Subject

1. Mixed media (Music)
2. Cage, John > Manuscripts
3. Aleatory music
4. Dramatic music

Call number

1. JPB 95-3 Folder 308

Note

1. Typescript and holograph in ink.
2. Performance directions and "ruler" used for measuring time units.
3. "Each performer is who he is (e.g. performing musician, dancer, singer), but he is also performing a piece of theatrical music...A performer may include other performers in his gamut..."
4. "This is a composition indeterminate of its performance. Time-brackets are given within which an action may be made. These actions are from a gamut of twenty nouns and/or verbs chosen by the performer...Means are supplied for the answering of four questions with regard to the activities within any one time bracket. The composing means were the materials of Fontana mix" (cf. Notes on compositions II in John Cage: Writer / Kostelanetz).
5. Dated: Stony Point, N.Y., January 1960; In ink: c1977 by Henmar Press.
6. John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Author

1. Cage, John.

Title

1. Theatre piece / [John Cage].

Imprint

1. 1960 January, c1977.

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1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Added author

1. Cage, John. Fontana mix.

Research call number

1. JPB 95-3 Folder 308 Public service copy
2. JPB 94-24 Folder 273 Originals -- Permission required