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Work Title Four |
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Date Composed in 1989. |
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Ensemble Type String Quartet |
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Work Length 10 to 30 minutes |
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Instrumentation For string quartet. |
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Comments As Cage himself instructs: “The players sit in the conventional relation to each other. There are three five-minute sections, A-C, each having flexible time brackets and one which is fixed; these are notated from 0’00” to 5’00”. There are four parts (1-4), each of which can be played by any of the players. If the performance is to last ten minutes, all players play section B (parts 1-4). The two violinists then exchange their parts with the other two players either as 1 with 3 and 2 with 4 or 1 with 4 and 2 with 3. After resetting their chronometers, they play section B again. If the performance is to last twenty minutes, all players play sections A and C without pause between. Players 1 and 2 then exchange their parts with players 3 and 4 in either way and play A and C again. If the performance is complete, ABC, with the repetition it will last thirty minutes.” |
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Dedicatee(s) Arditti Quartet |
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Publication Peters Edition EP 67304 |
