Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 7 leaves; 31 cm. or smaller. +

Uniform title

1. Renga (Sketches)

Alternative title

1. Renga (Sketches)

Subject

1. Mixed media (Music)
2. Cage, John > Manuscripts
3. Musical sketches
4. American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 > Songs and music
5. Aleatory music

Call number

1. JPB 95-3 Folder 509

Note

1. Holograph in ink.
2. Contains sketches for parts in graphic notation and a draft of the instructions.
3. From instructions: Score (361 drawings by Thoreau sometimes superimposed) and 78 parts (for any instruments and/or voices): to be played alone or (as an occasional piece) with Apartment house 1776 or some other 'musicircus' (live or recorded) appropriate to another occasion than the Bi-Centennial of the U.S.A. ...
4. From general remarks: The seventy-eight who play Renga act on the suggestions of graphic notation. In western tradition, tones are musical when they are fixed with respect to their characteristics. In folk and oriental traditions tones are musical when they change pitch and quality in their course. Graphic notation suggests such changes.
5. Dedication: for Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in observance of the Bicentennial of the USA.
6. On p. of instructions: New York City and other cities of the world (Caracas, Cuernavaca, Toronto, Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Canberra, Kyoto, Tokyo, Sapporo), Spet. '75-April '76.
7. John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Author

1. Cage, John.

Title

1. Renga / John Cage.

Imprint

1. 1976 April.

Connect to:

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

Added author

1. Cage, John. Apartment house 1776.

Research call number

1. JPB 95-3 Folder 509 Public service copy
2. JPB 94-24 Folder 447 Originals -- Permission required