| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Chicago, April 1942 |
| Instrumentation: | Percussion quintet (originally: For percussion orchestra (5 players)) |
| Duration: | 7' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | San Francisco, performed by an ensemble conducted by Lou Harrison |
| Dedicated to: | Lou Harrison |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6721 © 1960 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph - photocopy with holographic annotation in ink - 21 p.); Score (holograph in pencil - 21 p.); Directions to copyist concerning publication (typescript, with manuscript in pencil in an unidentified hand - 1 lf.); Parts (galley proffs with corrections by John Cage in blue pencil - 6+4+5+4+3 p.); Score (galley proofs with corrections by John Cage in blue pencil - 16 p.) all in New York Public Library. |
| The rhythmic structure is 3, 4, 2, 3, 5. The percussion instruments used are combined with an amplified coil of
wire, attached to a phonographic tone arm. The instruments are tin cans, conch shell, ratchet, bass drum, buzzers,
water gong, metal wastebasket and lion's roar. |