Research Catalog

Title

Pianos and voices [sound recording] / John Cage, Meredith Monk.

Author

De Mare, Anthony

Publication

Westbury, N.Y. : Koch International Classics, p1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Joyce, James, 1882-1941.
• Monk, Meredith
• Cage, John

Description

1 sound disc : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Alternative Title

Music by Cage and Monk.

Subjects

• Songs (Medium voice) with piano
• Prepared piano music
• Piano music
• Aleatory music
• Vocalises (Medium voice) with piano
• Operas > Excerpts
• Joyce, James, 1882-1941 > Musical settings

Note

• Subtitle on spine: Music by Cage and Monk.
• The 1st four Cage works are for prepared piano; the 5th-7th works are for piano; the 8th work, a chance composition, is also for piano; the last two works, both based on text from James Joyce's Finnegan's wake, are "sung music, accompanied by tapping on different parts of a piano with its keyboard lid closed."
• The Monk works, except for Paris (for piano) and Double fiesta (for vocalist and piano duo, performed here by overdubbing), are excerpts from operas or theatre pieces, for piano or vocalisations with piano.
• Compact disc.
• Program notes by Mark Swed ([6] p.) inserted in container.

Contents

Travel song (1981) [from opera Specimen days] (1:34) ; Paris (1972) (3:22) ; The tale (1973) [from opera Education of the girl child] (2:37) / Meredith Monk -- A room (1943) (1:44) ; Tossed as it is untroubled (1943) (2:26) ; Root of an unfocus (1944) (5:00) ; Primitive (1942) (3:39) ; Two pieces for piano (ca. 1935; rev. 1974). Slowly (1:38) ; Quite fast (1:10) ; In a landscape (1948) / John Cage -- Gamemaster's song (1983) [from theatre piece Games] (4:20) ; Memory song (1983) [also from Games] (5:32) ; Double fiesta (1986) (5:41) / Meredith Monk -- Ophelia (1946) (6:39) ; ASLSP (1985) (6:25) ; The wonderful widow of eighteen springs (1942) (2:32) ; Nowth upon nacht (1984) (:49) / John Cage.

Call Number

*LDC 5477 (F)

LCCN

9992371042

OCLC

• 27120056
• NYPG00-R231

Author

De Mare, Anthony. Performer

Title

Pianos and voices [sound recording] / John Cage, Meredith Monk.

Imprint

Westbury, N.Y. : Koch International Classics, p1992.

Performer

Anthony de Mare, piano and vocals.

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Added Author

Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake.

Monk, Meredith. Specimen days. Travel song.

Monk, Meredith. Paris.

Monk, Meredith. Education of the girlchild. Tale.

Cage, John. She is asleep. Room.

Cage, John. Tossed as it is untroubled.

Cage, John. Root of an unfocus.

Cage, John. Primitive.

Cage, John. Pieces, piano (1974).

Cage, John. In a landscape.

Monk, Meredith. Games. Gamemaster's song.

Monk, Meredith. Games. Memory song.

Monk, Meredith. Double fiesta.

Cage, John. Ophelia.

Cage, John. ASLSP.

Cage, John. Wonderful widow of eighteen springs.

Cage, John. Nowth upon nacht.

Added Title

Music by Cage and Monk.

Other Standard Identifier

9992371042

Publisher No.

3-7104-2H1 Koch

Research Call Number

*LDC 5477 (F) Program notes on file.