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1950. Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). John Cage. Modern. Full Score. Composed 1950. Duration 00:20:00. Edition Peters #EP6757. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6757).

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From the cd, LaSalle Quartet - Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Cage, Mayuzumi - String Quartets.the four tracks that make the Cage quartet were originally released on LP in 1976. Quietly flowing. String Quartet in 4 Parts: Date Composed between 1949 and 1950. Premiered in Black Mountain, N.C., August 12, 1950. Ensemble Type. (In John Cage - An Anthology, edited by Richard Kostelanetz - pp. 77-84) and The Music of John Cage by James Pritchett (pp. The strings here are played without vibrato, and those to be used for tone.

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1989. Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). John Cage. Modern. Sheet Music. Composed 1989. Duration 00:30:00. Edition Peters #EP67304. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP67304).

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String Quartets 2 violins, viola, cello
Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). Arranged by Irvine Arditti. John Cage. Modern. Set of parts. Duration 02:10:00. Edition Peters #EP68258A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP68258A).

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String Quartets string quartet
1950. Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). John Cage. Modern. Set of parts. Composed 1950. Duration 00:20:00. Edition Peters #EP6757A. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6757A).

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String Quartets 2 violins, viola, cello
Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). Arranged by Irvine Arditti. John Cage. Modern. Score. Duration 02:10:00. Edition Peters #EP68258. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP68258).

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String Quartets 2 violins, viola, cello
1984. Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). String Quartets. Modern. Score. Composed 1984. Edition Peters #EP66987. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP66987).

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String Quartets 2 violins, viola, cello
Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). Arranged by Eric Salzman. John Cage. Modern. Score. 108 pages. Duration 00:21:00. Edition Peters #EP67725. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP67725).

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2 violins, viola, cello
For String Quartet. Composed by John Cage (1912-1992). String Quartets. Peters Contemporary Chamber Series. Score & parts. Edition Peters #EP6757B. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6757B).

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String Quartet in Four Parts is a string quartet by John Cage, composed in 1950. It is one of the last works Cage wrote that is not entirely aleatoric. Like Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (1946–48) and the ballet The Seasons (1947), this work explores ideas from Indian philosophy.

General information[edit]

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Cage began writing the quartet in 1949 in Paris. Prior to beginning to work on the piece, he told his parents that he wanted to compose a work which would praise silence without actually using it; after completing the first movement he was so fascinated with the new way to work that he wrote in a letter: 'This piece is like the opening of another door; the possibilities implied are unlimited.'[1] The piece was completed in 1950 in New York City and dedicated to Lou Harrison. It was premièred on August 12 the same year at the Black Mountain College.

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The String Quartet in Four Parts is based partly on the Indian view of the seasons, in which the four seasons—spring, summer, autumn and winter—are associated each with a particular force–those of creation, preservation, destruction and quiescence. The parts and their corresponding seasons are as follows:[1]

  1. Quietly Flowing Along – Summer
  2. Slowly Rocking – Autumn
  3. Nearly Stationary – Winter
  4. Quodlibet – Spring

The general quietness and flatness of sound in the quartet may be an expression of tranquility, the uniting emotion of the nine permanent emotions of the Rasa aesthetic, which Cage explored earlier in Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano. Another aspect of composition which Cage used earlier was the use of counterpoint: the third movement uses a canon for a single melodic line, which repeats itself going backward, in a slightly rhythmically altered form, to the beginning.[2] Cage composed canons from his earliest works, such as the Three Easy Pieces of 1933 and Solo with obbligato accompaniment of two voices in canon of 1934.

To compose the quartet Cage used a new technique, which consisted of dealing with fixed sonorities, or chords. He called those 'gamuts', and each gamut was created independently of all others. After producing a fixed amount of gamuts, scored for each player in an unchanging way,[3] a succession of them could be used to create a melody with harmonic background. Because at any particular point a gamut would be selected only for containing the note necessary for the melody, the resulting harmony would serve no purpose and any sense of progression, which was alien to Cage, would be eliminated. Since 1946 Cage's interest was in composing music to 'sober and quiet the mind, thus rendering it susceptible to divine influences', rather than music to express feelings and ideas,[4] and he would later give up control over music altogether by using chance operations, but already in the String Quartet in Four Parts 'the inclusion of traditional harmonies was a matter of taste, from which a conscious control was absent.'[5]

This composition and a lost early string quartet from 1936 are the only quartets Cage wrote that were explicitly labelled as such. Only three more works were composed for the same ensemble: Thirty pieces for String Quartet of 1983, Music for Four of 1987–88 and Four of 1989. Many of Cage's indeterminate works, such as the Variations series, Fontana Mix, as well as the string parts for Concert For Piano And Orchestra and others can be performed by a string quartet as well. Additionally, Cage's 44 Harmonies have been arranged for string quartet by Irvine Arditti.

Editions[edit]

  • Edition Peters 6757. (c) 1960 by Henmar Press.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • John Cage. Silence: Lectures and Writings, Wesleyan Paperback, 1973 (first edition 1961). ISBN0-8195-6028-6
  • Richard Kostelanetz. Conversing with John Cage, Routledge, 2003. ISBN0-415-93792-2
  • James Pritchett, Laura Kuhn. 'John Cage', Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy, grovemusic.com (subscription access).

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ abCage quoted in Pritchett, liner notes to 'John Cage: Complete String Quartets' (Arditti Quartet'. 1989–1992, released on Mode, Mode 27
  2. ^Cage quoted in Kostelanetz, 67
  3. ^Pritchett, Grove
  4. ^John Cage interview by Johnatan Cott, 1963. Available as streaming audio at the Internet Archive, see [1]
  5. ^Cage, 25
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