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Ballet 1951 : for Merce Cunningham
- Title
- Ballet 1951 : for Merce Cunningham / [John Cage].
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Publication
- 1951.
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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 189 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 ms. score ([28] leaves); 27 x 36 cm.
- Uniform Title
- Dances for soloist and company of 3 (Sketches)
- Alternative Title
- Dances for soloist and company of 3 (Sketches)
- Sixteen dances for soloist and company of 3.
- 16 dances for soloist and company of 3.
- Subjects
- Note
- Holograph in pencil.
- Written for the dance of the same name choreographed by Merce Cunningham, with costumes and properties by Eleanor De Vito, John Cage, Remy Charlip, and Merce Cunningham. First performed at Bennett Junior College in Millbrook, NY on Jan. 17, 1951.
- Includes titles for each dance that were not used in the final version.
- At end of Solo, no. 1: October 25 [1950]; at end of Blues, no. 10: Dec. 26, [1950]; at end of Basket dance, no. 12: Dec. 22, [1950].
- John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.
- Contents
- 1. Solo -- 2. Trio : 3 girls who had dissolved -- 3. Solo : The mad dog -- 4. Delicate leaves -- 5. Monk's sarabande -- 6. Fleeting images -- 7. Hero's dance : thickening -- 8. Fig for joy -- 9. Odious warrior -- 10. Blues -- 11. Medicine man -- 12. Basket dance -- 13. Solo -- 14. Quartet -- 15. Duet -- 16.
- Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 189
- OCLC
- NYPG96-C204
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Title
- Ballet 1951 : for Merce Cunningham / [John Cage].
- Imprint
- 1951.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Cunningham, Merce.Charlip, Remy.De Vito, Eleanor.
- Research Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 189 Public service copyJPB 94-24 Folder 167 Originals -- Permission required