Research Catalog
[Sketches for Atlas eclipticalis]
- Title
- [Sketches for Atlas eclipticalis] / John Cage.
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Publication
- [1961]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Notated music | Supervised use | JPB 95-3 Folder 320 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Music |
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- Description
- [21] leaves; 28 x 44 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Holograph in ink with emendations in black and blue pencil. Signed in pencil at bottom of p. 76.
- Irregular pagination: Contains grouping of instruments ([4] p.), star chart tracings (p. 1-4, 262-264, 285-288, 293-296), and superimposition of music staves on star tracings (p. 75-76). At top of p. 293: timpani 3.
- The composition means involved chance operations together with the placing of transparent templates on the pages of an astronomical atlas and inscribing the positions of stars. (Cf. Notes on compositions II, in John Cage: Writer / Kostelanetz.)
- Graphic notation.
- John Cage Music Manuscript Collection.
- Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 320
- OCLC
- NYPG95-C307
- Author
- Cage, John.
- Title
- [Sketches for Atlas eclipticalis] / John Cage.
- Imprint
- [1961]
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- Research Call Number
- JPB 95-3 Folder 320 Public service copyJPB 94-24 Folder 965 Originals -- Permission required