John Cage: John Cage: In a Landscape: Piano: Instrumental Work

Score for this piece which was comissioned by London Brass and first performed in 1992.Quoting composer: The piece was completed without title on 12th August 1992. A title once considered was Canons Chorales and Waltzes butthis was dropped since there was only one canon (the opening) and only genuine waltz (apart from a passage towards the end which superimposes the canon over a waltz rhythm). The following day I read the paper that John Cage haddied - the day I finished writing. For this reason but mainly because Cage was the most revolutionary practical music thinker of the 20th century this piece is dedicated to him. His influence on my music may be perceived underthe 'very un-Cagein' surface: though stylistically there may be little in For John Cage that may have been to his taste I hope he would at least have appreciated its diversity its non-simultaneous multiplicity.Parts areavailable on hire or special order. Duration 15 minutes.

Par CAGE JOHN. Bacchanale, John Cage\'s first work to exploit his influential \'prepared piano\' technique, arose from a request for musical accompaniment by dancer Syvilla Fort. Intending to write her a percussion piece, Cage discovered that the theater in which the premiere was to take place was too small to accommodate any instruments beyond the piano already present, and instead adapted the piano into a palette of percussive sounds by placing small foreign objects among the strings. A new arrangement by guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan translates this six-minute work from the prepared piano to an even more novel instrumentation: a duo of prepared guitars, the sound of their vibrating strings transformed by the addition of alligator clips, washers, and slips of paper. This performing score (EP 6784a) includes detailed, illustrated instructions from the arranger on how to prepare the instruments. The original version of Bacchanale is now available for sale in John Cage\'s Prepared Piano Music 1940-47, Vol. 1 (EP 67886a). Along with fellow guitarist Adam Levin, Aaron Larget-Caplan gave the world premiere of this arrangement in December 2018 at Arlington Street Church in Boston. / Date parution : 2022-09-07/ Répertoire / 2 Guitares Préparées

The recently re-discovered 'Chess Pieces' by John Cage is a work unique to Cage's ?uvre and indeed to twentieth-century music and art. In 1944, Cage created the painting, 'Chess Pieces', specifically for 'The Imagery of Chess' exhibition at the Julien Lev /

- This is a reduction of a chamber work that Cage did for rehearsal and occasional performance with Cunningham Company. It was discovered by Walter Zimmerman in the Cage Collection at the New York Public Library. Zimmerman has edited. It is considered a major find.- For more on John Cage, please click on his name, above ... / Piano

This work is a special edition to mark John Cage's 100th Birthday! It includes all previously published versions of 4'33' - both typed and calligraphic versi as well as the edition in proportional notation created for Irwin Kremen to whom Cage had dedicated the piece.

L'?uvre de John Cage restera sans doute encore longtemps un défi lancé au monde musical et à ses conventions.
Inventeur du « piano préparé », il est aussi l'initiateur de courants artistiques majeurs de l'après-guerre et de formes d'expression comme le « happening », la « performance », les installations multimédia, etc. Une analyse détaillée et pénétrante de ses recherches, de ses conceptions et de ses oeuvres.
Avec cinq entretiens réalisés entre 1970 et 1990. / Livre /