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Work Title Seven Haiku |
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Date Composed between 1951 and 1952. |
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Ensemble Type Solo |
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Work Length 3 minutes |
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Instrumentation For solo piano. |
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Comments Cage composed his Seven Haiku using his chart technique involving I Ching chance operations, in fact, the same charts as he employed in Music of Changes, along with the same method of notation, which is proportional, and where a quarter note equals 1/2 inch. Each haiku is built around three measures of five, seven and five quarter notes. Silence plays an essential role in these pieces. |
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Dedicatee(s) page 1: for Elsa; page 2: for Merle Armitage; page 2: for Aghavni Uomini; page 4: for Richard Lippold; page 5: for Maro [Ajemian]; page 6: for Willem de Kooning; page 7: for Sonia Sekula |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 6745 |
