Sculptures musicales: performance notes

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Title

Sculptures musicales: performance notes

Collection

John Cage Music Manuscript Collection
Sculptures musicales

Names

Cage, John (Composer)
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 (Author in quotations or text extracts)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1989
Place: New York, NY
Publisher: Henmar Press

Library Location

Music Division
Shelf locator: JPB 94-24 Folder 792 Originals

Subjects

Cage, John -- Manuscripts
Manuscripts, Musical
Aleatory music

Genres

Prints

Notes

Content: Galley proofs, signed.
Content: Instructions, based on a quote from Marcel Duchamp, for a chance composition.
Content: "Sounds lasting and leaving from different points and forming a sounding sculpture which lasts...An exhibition of several...each sculpture within the same space the audience is...." -- performance notes.

Languages

English

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12590557
Photo Order: 48412
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7a8a5f80-c940-012f-b5cf-58d385a7bbd0

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Sculptures musicales: performance notes" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1989. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7a8a5f80-c940-012f-b5cf-58d385a7bbd0

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1989). Sculptures musicales: performance notes Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7a8a5f80-c940-012f-b5cf-58d385a7bbd0

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Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Sculptures musicales: performance notes" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7a8a5f80-c940-012f-b5cf-58d385a7bbd0

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