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A collection of rocks

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Request Appointment 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 744	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

Description

1 score ([26] p.); 28 cm.

Uniform Title

Collection of rocks

Alternative Title

Collection of rocks

Subjects

Genre/Form

Galley proofs.

Note

Galley proof with holograph annotations in red ink and copyist's annotations in green pencil.
From performance notes: "Sounds lasting and leaving from different places and forming a sounding sculpture...There are fifteen rocks. Each is made up of three, four or five sounds. There are sixty-five points in the performing space. There are twenty-two different sound producing groups of musicians, each group divided into two parts so that a tone can be made to last, the second group spelling the first when the first i slosing its breath. The are no conductors, each group has two chronometers. Each group performs three times from three different points in space. The piece lasts twenty minutes. Versions may be performed which last for a longer time (1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2, 3 times as long as the present version). The musicians must move in order to play from a different position. The audience is free to move about..."
John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 744

OCLC

NYPG95-C907

Author

Cage, John.

Title

A collection of rocks / [John Cage].

Imprint

[1984]

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Research Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 744 Public service copy

JPB 94-24 Folder 622 Originals -- Permission required