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- Suite for Toy Piano (1948) in a version for piano, occupies tracks 3 – 7. Merce Cunningham ’s choreography for this Suite for Toy Piano is entitled A Diversion. Cage never performed it on a toy piano, but one recording that I know well is Joshua Pierce ’s interpretation on a Wergo CD.
- Suite for Toy Piano (1948) John Cage, for toy piano Seventy Nine Years (in memorium JC) (1993) Steve Nelson-Raney, for piano (dedicated to ellsworth snyder) Piano / Prepared Piano / Toy Piano Concert: Music By John Cage & Others takes place on Friday, September 28th 7 p.m. at the Florentine Opera Studio 926 E. Burleigh Street.
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| Date Composed in 1948. Premiered in Black Mountain, N.C., August 20, 1948. |
| Ensemble Type Solo |
| Work Length 8 minutes |
| Instrumentation This work may also be performed on a traditional piano. An orchestral version, in an arrangement by Lou Harrison, is also available: 3333 3440 T, Perc, Vc, Pf. Hp, Str (EP 6758a). |
| Comments This work was originally used as music for the choreographed piece by Merce Cunningham, 'A Diversion.' This suite is in 5 short, numbered movements, and obviously employs a very limited gamut of tones: the nine white keys from E below middle C to the F above. Those for Movements I and V are limited to five tones: G to D. Only in movements III and IV do all nine tones appear. The rhythmic structure is 7-7-6-6-4. This suite is one of Cage's most charming and whimsical compositions. It is humorous and somewhat ironic, giving exaggerated dynamics that can't be fully realized on a toy piano, i.e. from sffz to ppp. In 1963, Lou Harrison made an arrangement of this work for orchestra (3333 4330 timpani, percussion, piano, celesta, harp, strings), which was subsequently published by C.F. Peters (nr.6758a). |
| Arranger Lou Harrison |
| Publication Peters Edition EP 6758 |