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Quartets I-VIII for 24 instruments / John Cage.
LIBRA Folio M1045.C24 Q3 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Cage, John, composer.
- Standardized Title:
- Quartets, orchestra
- Language:
- English
- No linguistic content
- Subjects (All):
- Orchestral music--Scores.
- Orchestral music.
- Aleatory music.
- Genre:
- Aleatory music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (54 pages) ; 43 cm
- Edition:
- Score.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henmar Press Inc. ; Frankfurt/M. : Edition Peters, [2012?]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- Notes:
- The 24 instruments are: flute, 2 oboes, clarinet, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 5 violins I, 4 violins II, 3 violas, 3 violoncellos, double bass.
- Includes composer's note in English.
- Chance composition.
- Score and parts prepared by Paul Sadowski.
- "The quartets are subtractions: I from Lift up your heads, o ye gates (Jacob French) ; II from The Lord descended ; III from Old North (both by William Billings) ; IV from New York (Andrew Law) ; V from Heath ; VI from Judea (both by William Billings) ; VII from Greenwich (Andrew Law) ; VIII from The Lord is ris'n (William Billings)"--Preface.
- Duration: approximately 40 min.
- OCLC:
- 823893730
- Publisher Number:
- 66686 Edition Peters
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