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Summary:

"The collaboration of [John] Cage and [David] Tudor reached an apex in the Solo for Piano from Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58). None of Cage's previous works had employed more than a single type of notation. In contrast, the Solo for Piano consists of eighty-four notational types, ranging from standard line-and-staff notation to extravagant musical graphics. The notational complexity of the Solo for Piano led Tudor to write out-or realize-a performance score, from which he played at the premiere of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra in May 1958. The next spring, when Cage requested music to complement his ninety-minute lecture "Indeterminacy," Tudor created a second realization, for which he devised a new temporal structure to implement Cage's notations. This edition of Tudor's second realization of the Solo for Piano presents Tudor's performance score in the spatial-temporal layout of its proportional notation. An introductory essay discusses the early collaborations of Cage and Tudor, as well as the genesis, creative process, and performance history of the Solo for Piano. The critical commentary examines each of Tudor's methods of realization; which notations from Cage's score Tudor selected and why; how Tudor interpreted Cage's often ambiguous performance instructions; how Tudor distributed the resulting sounds temporally; and the ways in which Tudor's realization fulfills, transcends, and sometimes contravenes the instructions of Cage's score." -- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Tudor, David, 1926-1996 , composer

Contributors:

Holzaepfel, John , editor

Cage, John

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Solo for piano by John Cage, second realization [by Tudor, D.] > Part 2, Music edition

Included Works:

Based on: Concert [by Cage, J.] > Solo, piano

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Solo for piano by John Cage, second realization [by Tudor, D.] > Part 2, Music edition (Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2020 — ISBN z9781987203042)

Companion publication to: Solo for piano by John Cage, second realization [by Holzaepfel, J.] > Part 1, essay and critical commentary (Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., 2020 — ISBN 9781987203035)

Related Series:

Recent researches in American music (Complete); [volume] 87

Music of the United States of America; 30B

Recent researches in music online

Subjects:

Piano music — United States — 20th century — Scores

Aleatory music — 20th century — Scores — United States

1900-1999

Aleatory music

Piano music

United States

Genres:

Piano scores

Scores

Performance Medium:

1 performer: piano

General Notes:

Description based on: Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed February 27, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 score (92 pages)) : portrait.

Digital Characteristics:

image file

Call Numbers:

M35.5.T83 S65 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781987203059 (online)
1987203054
9781987203042 (print) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.31022/A087
Publisher Number, A-R Editions, Inc.: A087 (score)

OCLC Numbers:

1142909229