Alto Flute (Doubling Piccolo), Glockenspiel, and Piano SKU: PE.EP6805D (+)
Alto Flute (Doubling
Piccolo), Glockenspiel,
and Piano
SKU:
PE.EP6805D
Arrangement by Morton
Feldman for Alto Flute
(doubling Piccolo),
Glockenspiel and
Piano. Composed by
John Cage. Arranged by
Morton Feldman. Mixed
Instruments -
Miscellaneous Ensemble;
Trio. Edition Peters.
Contemporary. 40 pages.
Edition Peters
#98-EP6805D. Published by
Edition Peters
(PE.EP6805D).
ISBN
9790300763484.
In
June of 1980, Aki
Takahashi was preparing
to leave Buffalo, New
York. Morton Feldman,
knowing her reputation as
a pianist specializing in
new music, had invited
her to be an artist in
residence at the
university where he
taught. But now it was
time for her to go back
to Japan. At their last
meeting, Feldman gave a
musical score to
Takahashi as a gift. It
was a copy of John Cage's
solo piano piece Cheap
Imitation with
annotations by Feldman.
He told her that this was
an instrumental version
of this piece for flute,
piano, and glockenspiel.
He signed the title page,
just under the original
title:
INSTRUMENTAL
VERSION (Fl, Pf, Glock)
Morton Feldman
Buffalo, N.Y. Winter
1980 Dedicated to Aki
Takahashi
Four
different artists were
bound up in this single
gesture: John Cage, Erik
Satie, Morton Feldman,
and Aki Takahashi. The
story of this gift, a
story of memory and
connection, unfolds over
most of the 20th century.
John Cage was
always devoted to the
music of Eric Satie. In
1970 Cage was supposed to
create a new two-piano
transcription of Satie's
Socrate for a Cunningham
dance, but he was unable
to get permission from
the publisher. Even
worse, he could not even
get performance rights to
use the published
piano-vocal score of
Socrate. Cage's creative
solution was to make a
piano piece that
maintained the exact
metrical and phrase
structure of Satie's
Socrate, but with
different notes, thus
avoiding copyright
issues. He called this
piece Cheap Imitation.
Cunningham responded by
calling his dance Second
Hand.
Feldman
arranged Cage's piano
version of Cheap
Imitation for a trio of
flute (doubling on alto
flute and piccolo),
piano, and glockenspiel.
This is the same
instrumentation that was
used in Feldman's 1978
Why Patterns? and which
(somewhat expanded) was
the basis for two of his
major works in the 1980s:
Crippled Symmetry (1983)
and For Philip Guston
(1984). Feldman made his
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By Michael Proksch. For Piano, 4-hands. This edition: Piano, 4-hands. Edition Br...(+)
By Michael Proksch. For
Piano, 4-hands. This
edition: Piano, 4-hands.
Edition Breitkopf.
Attached. 48 pages.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (German
import).
Saxophone Series, 2013
Edition. Composed by
The Royal Conservatory.
Saxophone Series, 2013
Edition. Book/CD. 44/20
pages. The Frederick
Harris Music Company
#WS1. Published by The
Frederick Harris Music
Company (FH.WS1).
ISBN
978-1-55440-550-3.
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