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Cage music transfer: short excerpts , 1991-03-13

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Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

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Cage music transfer

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Title
Cage music transfer: short excerpts , 1991-03-13
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Cage, John (Composer)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1991-03-13
Table of Contents
Music of changes, excerpt (0:00-1:31) -- 2 pieces, 1946, excerpt (1:32-2:49) -- Dream, excerpt (2:50-4:03) -- Perilous night, excerpt (4:04-5:31) -- Widow of 18 years [Roaratorio: an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake], excerpt (5:32-6:49) -- She is asleep, excerpt (6:50-8:20) -- Mysterious adventure, excerpt (8:21-9:26) -- [Recording tone] (9:46-10:11) -- [Dream] (10:18-19:22) -- [She is asleep], ends abruptly (19:45-25:03)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LT-10-A 3069
Topics
Piano music
Prepared piano music
Modern dance music
Songs
Tom-tom music
Cage, John. Dream
Cage, John. She is asleep. Quartet
Genres
Music
Notes
Content: Title, location and date provided by cataloger based on typed notes on original container and reel hub.
Content: Typed note on original container: "03/31/91 ; John Cage Music Xfers ; 2 track, speed 15 ips, 1K @OVU @HEAD ; CDF, Program length 00:00:00, KH/JD/2TRK ; Stereo, TRK 1 stereo left, TRK 2 stereo right".
Content: Contains short excerpts of recorded music by John Cage introduced by the recording engineer.
Content: Accompanying insert is a Sound Sync, Inc., production sheet for "Sound Effects" with handwritten notes: "Client: CDF ; Producer: Lana ; Project: Cage Music Xfer ; Engineer: RP ; Date: 3/13 ; IPS: 15 ; Tracks: 2 ; Stereo ; Tape: 406 ; Tones: 1K ; Description: 1. Musical changes [sic], 2. 2 pieces 1946, 3. Dream 1:05, 4. Perilous Night, 5. Widow of 18 years (Finnegan's Wake?), 6. She is Asleep (12 Tom Toms) 1:24, 7. Mysterious Adventure".
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: R069.
Venue: Compiled at Sync Sound, Inc., in, New York, New York, 1991 March 13.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Action: To create the streaming file, the sound engineers edited out the silence at the end of the preservation file, thus the discrepancies in length between the archival original and the streaming file.
Physical Description
Audiotape reel
Extent: 1 audiotape reel (27 minutes total) : analog, 15 ips, two track, stereo ; 10 in.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 890142643
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20290961
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4d425ff0-b7b8-0133-a24d-3c07547a230f
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Item timeline of events

  • 1991: Created
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Cage music transfer" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1991. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4f712770-b7b8-0133-0a1d-3c07547a230f

Chicago/Turabian Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Cage music transfer" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4f712770-b7b8-0133-0a1d-3c07547a230f

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1991). Cage music transfer Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4f712770-b7b8-0133-0a1d-3c07547a230f

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Cage music transfer