| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Late 1943 |
| Instrumentation: | Prepared piano |
| Duration: | 2'30" |
| Premiere and performer(s): | April 5, 1944 at the Studio Theatre in New York City |
| Dedicated to: | Valerie Bettis |
| Choreography: | Merce Cunningham |
| Published: | Edition Peters 6722 © 1960 by Henmar Press |
| Manuscript: | Score including table of preparations (holograph, signed, in ink - 2 p.); unused title page (holograph, signed, in ink - 1 lf.) both at New York Public Library |
| The original title of the piece is Meditation. The dance was called Tossed as it is untroubled.
It is a lively dance piece in a periodic rhythm written in a rhythmic structure 7 times 7. The piece is almost completely
monophonic, consisting of a single melody. |