Party Pieces
Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses




Category: Musical composition
Dated: Around 1945
Instrumentation: Any melody or keyboard instruments
Duration: 12'
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Published: Edition Peters 66500 © 1982 by Henmar Press. (instrumentation by Robert Hughes)
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The pieces were composed in collaboration with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson, each writing a number of measures and then passing it on to the next in the circle.
In 1982 Robert Hughes made an instrumentation for flute (& piccolo), clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano.