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26'1.1499" : for a string player

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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 222	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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1 ms. score (a-c, 85 p.); 31 x 45 cm. and smaller.

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Holograph, signed, in ink.
On page c: The present part may be played on any 4-stringed instrument or (using parts indicated by dotted lines) any combination of 2 or more.
Incoporates the following works: 57 1/2" for a string player (p. 34-38); 1' 5 1/2" for a string player (p. 39-43); 1' 1/2" for a string player (p. 44-48); 1' 18" for a string player (p. 49-53); 1' 14" for a string player (p. 54-58).
Note on page c: All of these pieces may be played alone or in combination and in whole or in part, the title to be appropriately changed to indicate time in minutes and seconds and the instrumentalists involved....The whole constitutes a fragment of an unfinished work for many activities and may be performed with any of those to be written or otherwise calculated.
Dedications: on page b: for Harold Coletta; on p. 38: For June; on p. 43: for Broadus Erle; on p. 48: for Matthew Raimondi; on p. 53: for Seymour Barab; on p. 58: for Walter Trampler.
Dates: on p. 38: May 1953; on p. 43: 6.14.53; on p. 48: 6.28.53; on p. 53: 6.29.53; on. p. 58: 6.30.53.
Note on page c: [Pages 1-33, 59-85] were written at Stony Point, N.Y., August-September 1955 with assistance from David Tudor which is gratefully acknowledged..
At bottom of t.p. and p. 1: c1960 by Henmar Press Inc.
Signature at bottom of p. 1-13.
Page 34 mis-numbered as p. 33.
John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.

Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 222

OCLC

NYPG95-C62

Author

Cage, John.

Title

26'1.1499" : for a string player / John Cage.

Imprint

1953 May, c1960.

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Tudor, David, 1926-1996.

Raimdoni, Matthew.

Erle, Broadus.

Coletta, Harold.

Trampler, Walter.

Barab, Seymour.

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57 1/2" for a string player.

1'5 1/2" for a string player.

1'1/2" for a string player.

1'18" for a string player.

1'14" for a string player.

Research Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 222 Public service copy

JPB 94-24 Folder 955 Originals -- Permission required