Essay

alternative title:
Writing through the Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1987-88
Instrumentation: computer-generated tapes
Duration: 14'04" (stratified form); 16'49" (unstratified form)
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to:
Choreography: Points in Space by Merce Cunningham
Published: Edition Peters 67180 © by Henmar Press
Manuscript:


18 Mesostics on Erik Satie's title 'Messe des Pauvres'. Tapes with superimpositions of Cage's readings of the eighteen mesostics. The tapes were prepared at the Center for Computer Music in Brooklyn College with the assistance of Frances White, Kenneth Worthy and Victor Friedberg