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Work Title Five4 |
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Date Composed in 1991. Premiered in Witten, April 25, 1992. |
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Ensemble Type Quintet |
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Work Length 5 minutes |
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Instrumentation For soprano and alto saxophones and three percussionists. |
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Comments As Cage himself instructs: “Single or several tones (1-5) in flexible time brackets. Do not play the tones more than once. Dynamics and durations should be extremely varied and go to extremes of loudness and softness. The percussion instruments are numbered but not specified. They should be skin, wood, or muted metal, not overly resonant, but capable of being played ffs and pp. The number of icti for each time bracket is in superscript. The saxophone parts do not sound as written.” |
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Dedicatee(s) In Memoriam of Stefan Wolpe |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 67430 |
