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In the early 1940s, John Cage was on the faculty of Mills College (in Oakland, California). While there, he wrote music to accompany the graduation theses of graduate dance students. The manuscripts for two of these works were recently rediscovered in the Mills College archives. This work is one of them, written in 1942 for Sue Laub, DANCE MUSIC FOR ELFRID IDE (EP 68140) is the other.

for solo pianoDeciphered and transcribed by eminent pianist Margaret Leng Tan from the 1944 painting--held since then by a private collector--created by Cage for the Duchamp/Ernst exhibition, 'The Imagery of Chess.' Says Tan, 'Having been hidden in plain sight for over half a century, the question, 'What does it sound like?', was irresistible."From Ms. Tan's liner notes of her recording, on Mode Records 158: "Embedded like a musical fossil wit...

An anthology volume which demonstrates the unending playfulness and inventiveness of John Cage's relationship with the piano. The pieces in this volume are newly engraved and each is edited by acclaimed Cage pianist Margaret Leng Tan.This volume offers a treasure of lesser-known works by Cage....The editorial suggestions will help pianists to better understand the composer's attention to details in the score as well as his variety of musical s...

One of John Cage's most striking musical inventions was the 'prepared piano' which he created in 1938 in order to place an entire percussion section in the hands of a single pianist. First used to accompany dancers, Cage composed several works using the prepared piano in which nuts, bolts and other items are placed on the piano's strings to alter the timbre. This second volume of Cage's Prepared Piano Music contains music written between 1940 ...

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This compilation volume of John Cage's early piano works represents an ideal introduction to the composer. These works are approachable by pianists of intermediate ability and demonstrate Cage's originality and anticipation of trends (such as minimalism) that would not fully emerge for another two decades.

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The Sonatas and Interludes are Cage's masterwork for prepared piano. It was Cage's first composition inspired by Hindu philosophy, composed in a period of reading the works of the Indian art historian and critic Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. In these compositions, Cage expresses his interpretation of the permanent emotions of Indian tradion: The Heroic, the Erotic, the Wondrous, the Comic, Sorrow, Fear, Anger, the Odious (the four dark moods) and th...

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When vampires play with their food, new creatures are born. Remy's hope to rid her territory of a vampire invasion backfires when she gets captured outside of the vampire's new home. Though she hoped to escape, Xavier, the head of the den, had other thoughts. Tempted by the sweet delicacy that was fairy blood, he kept her. What started as an innocent effort to preserve the fairies' way of life ended in death. Remy's misguided efforts would...

The first and last movements of this piece are to be played on household objects, such as magazines, a table, books, or the floor, or using household architectural objects, " such as window frames. The optional third movement is a melody performed by one player on "any suitable instrument". The text of the popular second movement, "The World Is Round, " is by Gertrude Stein. Performing Score (4 Copies required for performance).

One of the most visually striking graphic scores ever created, John Cage's 'Aria' was composed in 1958 as a theatrical tour de force for the soprano Cathy Berberian. It consists of 20 pages of colourful graphic prompts and provocations to the singer, each page equating to 30 seconds in performance. 'Aria' may be performed as a solo or in combination with 'Fontana Mix' and/or any of the parts comprising 'Concert for Piano and Orchestra'.