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Work Title 2nd Construction |
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Alt. Title Second Construction |
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Date Composed in 1940. Premiered in Portland, Or., February 14, 1940. |
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Ensemble Type Percussion Quartet |
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Work Length 6 minutes |
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Instrumentation For percussion quartet. |
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Comments The use of rhythmic structures in this work is characteristic. As in Cage’s First Construction (in Metal), it comprises 16 x 16 measures, divided 4/3/4/5. It is dominated by a kind of variation technique, although the use of traditional thematic variations is almost entirely absent. The instruments used are mainly metal and skin, but also include a (prepared) piano (manually muted and producing siren-like sounds by means of sliding a cylinder on the strings, while a trill is produced on the keyboard). |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 6791 |
