Exercise



Category: Musical composition
Dated: Paris, November 1973 (first version); December 1984 (second version)
Instrumentation: for an orchestra of soloists
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Manuscript: 2 pages of score with 2 pages of instructions. Dated on first page of score: Paris, Nov.1973. At end of instructions: Dec. '84 (holograph in blue ink, green and blue felt pen - 4 p. Folder 983)


This is a verbally notated composition. Musicians vary the unconducted parts of Etcetera (during rehearsals of the work), by playing inversions of memorized parts, or by other ways of changing performance parameters.

Sources: Martin Erdmann: Chronologisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Kompositionen, Schriften, Gespräche, Hörspiele, Bilder, Objekte und Filme. In: Musik-Konzepte Sonderband - John Cage II; Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; New York Public Library online catalog