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Table of Contents:

• Disc 1: For magnetic tape (pt. 1 of 4) (5:24) ; For piano I (5:19) / Christian Wolff
• Music for piano 1-20 / John Cage (16:13)
• Indices (excerpt) / Earle Brown (20:51)
• Quantitäten / Bo Nilsson (12:31)
• Disc 2: Ixion / Morton Feldman (20:21)
• Variations V (excerpt) / John Cage (13:41)
• Mesa / Gordon Mumma (19:38)
• Activities for orchestra / Toshi Ichiyanagi (24:09)
• Disc 3:
• for nearly an hour
• (excerpt) / David Behrman (3:23)
• In memoriam : Nikola Tesla, cosmic engineer (excerpt) / Pauline Oliveros (9:44)
• For 1, 2, or 3 people (excerpt) (12:07) ; Burdocks (excerpt) / Christian Wolff (16:59)
• 52/3 (excerpt) / John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor (16:39)
• Telepos / Gordon Mumma (18:27)
• Disc 4: Toneburst / David Tudor (17:45)
• S.E. Wave/E. W. Song (excerpt) / Takehisa Kosugi (13:03)

• Remainder (excerpt) / Maryanne Amacher (14:55)
• Equal distribution (excerpt) / Jon Gibson (12:14)
• Inlets (excerpt) / John Cage (10:17)
• Disc 5: Weatherings (excerpt) / David Tudor (14:54)
• Geography and music (excerpt) / Yasunao Tone (21:18)
• Phonemes (excerpt) (14:00) ; Sextet for seven (18:15) / David Tudor
• Disc 6: Spacings / Takehisa Kosugi (23:52)
• gliss in sighs / John King (16:19)
• Voiceless essay (excerpt) / John Cage (10:58)
• Webwork (excerpt) / David Tudor (10:46)
• Peace talks (excerpt) / Michael Pugliese (11:44)
• Disc 7: Spectra / Takehisa Kosugi (20:29)
• Sculptures musicales (excerpt) / John Cage (12:14)
• Virtual focus (excerpt) / David Tudor (15:15)
• Four³ (excerpt) / John Cage (15:24)
• Neural network plus (excerpt) / David Tudor (13:28)
• Disc 8: Blues '99 (excerpt) / John King (19:10)
• Underground overlays (excerpt) / Stuart Dempster (15:22)
• Four⁶ (excerpt) / John Cage (11:17)
• Wave code A-Z (excerpt) / Takehisa Kosugi (14:42)
• Or 4 people (excerpt) / Christian Wolff (6:16)
• Disc 9: 108 and one⁸ (excerpt, performed together) / John Cage (14:18)
• longtermparking (excerpt) / John King (15:31)
• Long throw (excerpt) / David Behrman (18:25)
• Jitterbug (excerpt) / Annea Lockwood (20:19)
• Disc 10: Events. Feb. 16, 1993, Red Wing, Minn. (5:58) ; Sept. 14, 1996, Annemasse, France (5:53) ; June 5, 1997, Frankfurt (7:30) ; Sept. 12, 1998, Minneapolis (5:22) ; Sept. 29, 2002, Oslo (4:12) ; Oct. 30, 2002, Munich (6:51) ; Dec. 14, 2004, New York City (3:54) ; Dec. 15, 2004, New York City (6:56) ; Dec. 18, 2004, New York City (6:35) ; June 14, 2005, London (5:21) ; June 17, 2005, London (8:44) ; June 23, 2007, New Caanan, Conn. (3:09) ; Feb. 22, 2009, Beacon, New York (5:17).

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Contributors:

Cunningham, Merce

Wolff, Christian, 1934-

Cage, John

Brown, Earle, 1926-2002

Nilsson, Bo

Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987

Mumma, Gordon, 1935-

Ichiyanagi, Toshi, 1933-2022

Behrman, David

Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016

Tudor, David, 1926-1996

Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-2018

Amacher, Maryanne

Gibson, Jon

Tone, Yasunao

King, John, 1953 November 28-

Pugliese, Michael

Dempster, Stuart

Lockwood, Annea, 1939-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English
Accompanying materials: English

Included Works:

For magnetic tape, part 1 [by Wolff, C.]

For piano, no. 1 [by Wolff, C.]

For 1, 2, or 3 people [by Wolff, C.] (Selections)

Burdocks [by Wolff, C.] (Selections)

Or 4 people [by Wolff, C.]

Music, piano [by Cage, J.] > No. 1-20

Variations [by Cage, J.] > No. 5 (Selections)

52/3 [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

Inlets [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

Voiceless essay [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

Sculptures musicales [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

Four³ [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

Four⁶ [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

108 [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

One⁸ [by Cage, J.] (Selections)

Indices [by Brown, E.] (Selections) (arranged)

Quantitäten [by Nilsson, B.]

Ixion [by Feldman, M.]

Mesa [by Mumma, G.]

Telepos [by Mumma, G.]

Activities [by Ichiyanagi, T.]

For nearly an hour [by Behrman, D.] (Selections)

Long throw [by Behrman, D.] (Selections)

In memoriam Nikola Tesla [by Oliveros, P.]

Toneburst [by Tudor, D.]

Weatherings [by Tudor, D.] (Selections)

Phonemes [by Tudor, D.] (Selections)

Sextet for seven [by Tudor, D.]

Webwork [by Tudor, D.] (Selections)

Virtual focus [by Tudor, D.] (Selections)

Neural network plus [by Tudor, D.] (Selections)

S. E. wave/E. W. song [by Kosugi, T.] (Selections)

Spacings [by Kosugi, T.]

Wave code A-Z. Selections [by Kosugi, T.]

Remainder [by Amacher, M.] (Selections)

Equal distribution [by Gibson, J.] (Selections)

Geography and music [of Tone, Y.] (Selections)

Gliss in sighs [by King, J.]

Blues '99 [by King, J.] (Selections)

Longtermparking [by King, J.] (Selections)

Peace talks [by Pugliese, M.] (Selections)

Underground overlays [by Dempster, S.] (Selections)

Jitterbug [by Lockwood, A.] (Selections)

Related Works:

Spectra [by Kosugi, T.]

Subjects:

Ballets

Modern dance music

Piano music (Pianos (2))

Electronic music

Instrumental ensembles

Performers:

Various performers, given in accompanying booklet.

Performance Medium:

1 performer: piano

General Notes:

Works written for Merce Cunningham dances over a period of 57 years; titles and dates of specific choreographic works given in accompanying booklet.
Recorded 1954-2009.
10 discs in 5 cases with accompanying booklet (118 p. : ill., ports.) in box.

Physical Description:

10 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
no. 1
No. 1-20
no. 5

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; 1.4 m/s

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 133,751- 133,760

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 093228071228
Publisher Number, New World Records: 80712-2

OCLC Numbers:

703155986