Second construction : for percussion ensemble / John Cage. 1940 Jan.

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Second construction : for percussion ensemble / John Cage. 1940 Jan.

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1 ms. score (19 p.) ; 32 cm.

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Northwestern University

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...