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John Cage

Cage: The Seasons (Version for Orchestra)

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Edition Peters  |  SKU: EP6744  |  Barcode: 9790300740065
  • Composer: John Cage
  • Format: Full Score
  • Instrumentation: Orchestra
  • Work: The Seasons (Version for Orchestra) (1947)
  • ISMN: 9790300740065
  • Pages: 80

Description

This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece of the same title by Merce Cunningham, with stage design by Isamu Noguchi. It is also available in its original version for solo piano.

The Seasons consists of nine movements. It's a sweet and lyric composition, and like Sonatas and Interludes and String Quartet in Four Parts , indicative of Cage's interest in Indian aesthetics. Here, Cage uses the Indian signification as deep inspiration: Winter as quiescence, Spring as creation, Summer as preservation, and Fall as destruction. It is one of the compositions in which Cage tries to "imitate nature in her manner of operation", an idea he also drew from Indian philosophy.

The work's overall rhythmic structure is 2-2-1-3-2-4-1-3-1, which also expresses the relative lengths of each of the work's nine movements. Cage first composed the piano version, then the orchestral version, with assistance with its orchestration from Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson.

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Edition Peters

Cage: The Seasons (Version for Orchestra)

$ 136.50

Description

This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece of the same title by Merce Cunningham, with stage design by Isamu Noguchi. It is also available in its original version for solo piano.

The Seasons consists of nine movements. It's a sweet and lyric composition, and like Sonatas and Interludes and String Quartet in Four Parts , indicative of Cage's interest in Indian aesthetics. Here, Cage uses the Indian signification as deep inspiration: Winter as quiescence, Spring as creation, Summer as preservation, and Fall as destruction. It is one of the compositions in which Cage tries to "imitate nature in her manner of operation", an idea he also drew from Indian philosophy.

The work's overall rhythmic structure is 2-2-1-3-2-4-1-3-1, which also expresses the relative lengths of each of the work's nine movements. Cage first composed the piano version, then the orchestral version, with assistance with its orchestration from Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson.

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  • Full Score
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