| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | May 1960 |
| Instrumentation: | Magnetic tape |
| Duration: | 9 minutes (original version) |
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| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6737 © 1960 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph - 4 p.) at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Realization listing actions and multiple durations (holograph in ink, pencil and orange crayon - 1 p.) in New York Public Library. |
| Written for the play "The Marrying Maiden, a play of changes" by Jackson MacLow. A composition indeterminate
of its performance. Material consists of sheets with points and circles and tranparent material with a rectangle or
a grid. Through the material one determines splicing of tapes with speech fragments and other sounds. The original tape was made with the technical assistance of Richard Maxfield (June 1960) Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema ; Richard Kostelanetz: John Cage writer - Previously uncollected pieces; James Pritchett: The Music of John Cage; |