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Work Title A Valentine Out of Season |
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Date Composed in 1944. |
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Ensemble Type Solo |
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Work Length 4 minutes |
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Instrumentation For prepared piano. |
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Comments This work was used for the choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham entitled Effusion avant l'heur (later Games; also Trio), premiered in the summer of 1949. It is a suite of three pieces, each quite distinct, the middle one dance-like. Overall, it is quite simple, as is the preparation of the piano. Cage wrote this piece just prior to his separation from his wife Xenia, hence, perhaps, the title. |
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Dedicatee(s) Music for Xenia (Cage) |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 67886b |
