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Work Title Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March No. 1) |
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Alt. Title Imaginary Landscape No. 2 |
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Date Composed in 1942. Premiered in San Francisco, May 7, 1942. |
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Ensemble Type Percussion Ensemble |
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Work Length 7 minutes |
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Instrumentation For five percussion. |
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Comments The rhythmic structure of this work is 3, 4, 2, 3, 5. The percussion instruments -- tin cans, conch shell, ratchet, bass drum, buzzers, water gong, metal wastebasket, and lion's roar -- are combined with an amplified coil of wire attached to a phonographic tone arm. At its premiere, the work was titled Fourth Construction. However, Cage later renamed it to its present title. This work is unrelated to Cage's earlier and withdrawn Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (1940). |
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Dedicatee(s) Lou Harrison |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 6721 (score), EP 6721a (parts) |
