-Josh Ronsen, September 18th 1995
jronsen@mail.utexas.edu
* = location of this score is unknown
[ ] = author of text used in work
First Chapter of Ecclesiastes (1932) piano
Greek Ode (1932) voice and piano [Aeschylus, The Persians]
Piano Etudes (1932)
Solo For Clarinet (1933)
Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six
Short Inventions on the Subjects of the Solo (1933)
Sonata For Two Voices (1933)
Three Songs for Voice and Piano (1933) [Stein]
Twenty Years After
Is It as It Was
At East and Ingredients
Allemande (1934) * clarinet
Composition For 3 Voices (1934)
Counterpoint (1934/1937?) * piano
Duet for Two Flutes (1934) *
Music for Xenia (1934) * piano
Six Short Inventions (1934) trios of flute, clarinet, trumpet,
violin, 2 violas, cello
Quartet (for any percussion) (1935)
Quest (1935) piano -only second movement exists
Three Pieces for Flute Duet (1935)
Two Pieces for Piano (1935)
String Quartet (1936) *
Trio (1936) percussion Allegro/March/Waltz
Five Songs for Contralto (1938) voice and piano [Cummings]
Little Four Paws
Little Christmas Tree
In Just-
Hist Whist
Tumbling Hair
Bacchanale (1938? 1940?) prepared piano
Metamorphosis (1938) piano
Music for an Aquatic Ballet (1938) *
Music for Wind Instruments (1938)
Trio: flute, clarinet and bassoon
Duet: oboe and cornet
Quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, cornet and bassoon
First Construction (in Metal) (1939) percussion sextet
Ho to AA (1939) * voice
Imaginary Landscape No.1 (1939) percussion, prepared piano, record player
Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (1939/1936?) piano, trombone, percussion
orchestra
America Was Promises (1940) * voice and 2 pianos
Fads and Fancies in the Academy (1940) piano and percussion
Four Songs of the Moment (1940) * piano
Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (1940) -disliked by Cage and hence other No.2 (1942)
Instances of Silence (1940) *
Living Room Music (1940) 4 percussionists
To Begin
Story -with voice [Stein]
Melody
Second Construction (1940) percussion quartet
Spiritual (1940) * piano
Double Music (1941) -composed with Lou Harrison
Third Construction (1941) percussion quintet
And The Earth Shall Bear Again (1942) prepared piano
Credo in Us (1942) percussion, record player, radio, voice
Dance (1942) * piano
Forever and Sunsmell (1942) voice and 2 percussion [Cummings]
Imaginary Landscape No.2 (March) (1942) percussion quintet, electronics
Imaginary Landscape No.3 (1942) percussion sextet, contact microphones
In the Name of the Holocaust (1942) prepared piano
Jazz Study (1942) piano -spurious
Opening Dance (1942) * piano
Shimmera (1942) * prepared piano
The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942) percussion sextet, record players
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) Voice and closed piano [Joyce]
Totem Ancestor (1942) prepared piano
Ad Lib (1943) prepared piano
Amores (1943) prepared piano
Solo
Trio
Trio -identical to Trio (1936)
Solo
Chess Pieces (1943) piano
Meditation (1943) * prepared piano -first part identical to Tossed As It
Is Untroubled (1943)
Our Spring Will Come (1943) piano
She Is Asleep (1943)
Quartet -12 tom-toms
Duet - voice, prepared piano
A Room -prepared piano or piano
Tossed As It Is Untroubled (1943) prepared piano
Triple-Paced (1943) prepared piano
What We've So Proudly Hailed (1943) voice, 2 pianos and percussion
A Book Of Music (1944) two prepared pianos
A Valentine Out of Season (1944) prepared piano
Crete (1944) piano
Dad (1944) piano
Four Dances (1944) piano, percussion and voice
Four Walls (1944) voice and piano
Prelude for Meditation (1944) prepared piano
Root of an Unfocus (1944) prepared piano
Spontaneous Earth (1944) prepared piano
The Perilous Night (1944) prepared piano
The Unavailable Memory of (1944) prepared piano
Daughters of the Lonesome Isle (1945) prepared piano
Lidice (1945) * piano
Mysterious Adventure (1945) prepared piano
Party Pieces (1945) -jointly written by Cage, Cowell, Harrison and Thompsom
Soliloquy (1945) piano -modified excerpt from Four Walls (1944)
Thin Cry (1945) * piano
Three Dances (1945) 2 prepared pianos
Experiences I (1945) two pianos
Encounter (1946) piano
Foreboding (1946) * piano
Ophelia (1946) piano
Prelude for 6 Instruments in A Minor (1946)
The Feast (1946) * piano
Two Pieces for Piano (1946)
A Chant With Claps (1947?) voice and claps
Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) prepared piano
Nocturne for Violin and Piano (1947)
The Seasons, a Ballet in One Act (1947) orchestra or piano
Dream (1948) piano or viola
Experiences II (1948) voice [Cummings]
In a Landscape (1948) harp or piano
Orestes (1948/1946?) piano -fragmentary
Sonatas and Interludes (1948) prepared piano
Suite for Toy Piano (1948)
A Flower (1950) voice and closed piano
Music for "Works of Calder" (1950) prepared piano and recorded sounds
Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard (Piano) (1950)
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1951)
Imaginary Landscape No.4 (March No.2) (1951) 12 radios (24 players)
Music of Changes (1951) piano
Sixteen Dances (1951) flute, trumpet, piano, violin, cello, 4 percussionists
Two Pastorales (1951) prepared piano and two whistles
Seven Haiku (1951-52) piano
Black Mountain Piece (1952) -only part is for film projector
For M.C. and D.T. (1952) piano
4'33" (1952) piano or any instrument
Imaginary Landscape No.5 (1952) tape of 42 records
Music for Carillon No.1 (1952)
Music for Piano 1 (1952)
Water Music (1952) piano, radio, whistles, water, deck of cards
Waiting (1952) piano
Williams Mix (1952) tape
59 1/2" For a String Player (1953)
Music for Piano 2 (1953)
Music for Piano 3 (1953)
Music for Piano 20 (1953)
Unfinished Work for Voice (1953) -unfinished
Unfinished Work for Magnetic Tape (1953) -unfinished
45' for a Speaker (1954)
Music for Carillon No.2 (1954)
Music for Carillon No.3 (1954) -No.2 performed backwards
31'57.9864" for a Pianist (1954)
34'46.776" For a Pianist (1954)
Music for Piano 21-36; 37-52 (1955)
Speech (1955) 5 radios and speaker
26'1.1499" For a String Player (1955)
For Paul Taylor and Anita Dencks (1957) piano interior or other instruments
Music For Piano 53-68 (1956)
Music For Piano 69-84 (1956)
Radio Music (1956) one to eight radios
27'10.554" For a Percussionist (1956)
Winter Music (1957) 1-20 pianos
Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58)
Aria (1958) voice and other instruments
Communication (1958) speaker
Fontana Mix (1958) tape or any instrument
Music Walk (1958) piano(s) and radios or recordings
Solo for Voice (1958)
TV Koeln (1958) piano
Variations I (1958) any instruments
Indeterminacy (1959) voice, piano and tape (or stuff)
Sounds of Venice (1959) tv's and tapes; bells, boat horns, and a toy
that meows like a cat
Water Walk (1959) tv and tape; mechanical fish, duck call, bathtub, etc
Cartridge Music (1960) phonograph cartridges, electronics, small items
Duet for Cymbal (1960)
Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960)
Music for "The Marrying Maiden" (1960) tape and stuff
Piano Duet (1960)
Solo for Voice 2 (1960)
Theatre Piece (1960) 1-8 performers
WBAI (1960) machines
Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing? (1960) tapes and voice
Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62) orchestra and perhaps electronics
Lecture on Commitment (1961) voice
Music for Carillon No.4 (1961)
Variations II (1961) ensemble
0'00" (4'33" No.2) (1962) amplified non-musical action(s)
Variations III (1962-63)
Variations IV (1963) no instruments specified, only locations
Electronic Music for Piano (1964) piano and electronics
Rozart Mix (1965) tape
Variations V (1965) percussion and tape
Variations VI (1966)
Variations VII (1966) radios, geiger counters, telephones, et cetera
Music For Carillon No.5 (1967)
Musicirus (1967) event
Newport Mix (1967) tape
Reunion (1968) electronics and chess board gate
0'00" No. 2 (1968)
Cheap Imitation (1969) piano
HPSCHD (1969) harpsichords, tapes, slides, events
Mewantemooseicday (1969) event
Sound Anonymously Received (1969) any instruments
33 1/3 (1969) 12 turntables
Mureau (1970) voice
Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92) (1970) voice, electronics, events
Demonstration of the Sounds of the Environment (1971 1973?) tape
Les chants de Maldoror pulverises par l'assistance meme (1971) French
crowd of not more than 200
Program (KNOBS) for listener (1971)
Sixty-Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham (1971) voice
WGBH-TV (1971) composer and technicians
Bird Cage (1972) tapes, solo performer
Cheap Imitation (1972) orchestra or 24, 59 or 95 players
Etcetera (1973) 20 musicians, 3 conductors, tape
Exercise (1973-84) orchestra
Empty Words (1973-78) voice
Etudes Australes (1974) piano
Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts (for any instruments
and/or voices) - Twelve Haiku followed by a Recording of the
Dawn at Stony Point, New York, August 6, 1974 (1974)
Two Pieces for Piano (1974) -revised from 1934 version
Branches (1976) amplified plant materials
Child of Tree (Improvisation I) (1975) amplified plant materials
Lecture on the Weather (1975) 12 voices, tape, film
Renga (1975-76) orchestra
Imitations II (1976) clarinet
Quartets I-VIII (1976) 24, 41 or 91 players - part I also knownm as Music
for Concert Band and 12 Amplified Voices
Apartment House 1776 (1976) orchestra and 4 vocalists
Alla Ricerca del Silenzio Perduto (1977) tape and microphone
Cheap Imitation (1977) violin
49 Waltzes (1977) indeterminate organic materials
Freeman Etudes (1977-90) violin
Inlets (Improvisation II) (1977) conch shells, water, tape
Telephones and Birds (1977) 3 performers, recordings and telephone
announcements
Writing Through Finnegans Wake (1977)
Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegan's Wake (1977)
A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six
Marches for Chicago and Vicinity (1978)
Chorales (1978) violin
Etudes Boreales I-IV (1978) cello solo and/or piano solo
Il Treno (1978) 3 happenings for prepared trains
Letter to Erik Satie (1978) voice and tape
Pools (1978) conch shells and tape
Sounday (1978) 10-hour radio event
Some of "The Harmony of Maine" (Supply Belcher) (1978) organ
Variations VIII (1978)
Concerto Grosso for 4 TV Sets and 12 Radios (1979)
Dialog (1979) conductors
Hymns and Variations (1979) 12 amplified voices
J.Joyce, M.Duchamp, E.Satie:an Alphabet (1979) text with divisions
Paragraphs of Fresh Air (1979) radio
Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (1979) voice, tape,
Irish musicians
Silent Environment (1979) tape installation
Furniture Music Etcetera (1980) 2 pianos
Improvisation No.3 (1980) 4 tape players
Litany for the Whale (1980) 2 voices
Evene/Environne METZment (1981) audience
49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (1981) piano
Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras (1981)
Alphabet (1982) radio theater with tape
Dance/4 Orchestras (1982)
Fifteen Domestic Minutes (1982) letters and radio
A House Full of Music (1982) students
Writing Through the Cantos of Ezra Pound (1982)
ear for EAR (Antiphonies) (1983?) text without words for single voice
HMCIEX (1983-84) tape and voice -i.e. Here Comes Everybody MIX
Improvisation No.4 (1983) - 12 variable speed tape players, revised in 1986?
Postcard from Heaven (1983) 1-20 harps
Ryoanji: Solos for Oboe, Flute, Contrabass, Voice, Trombone with
Percussion or Orchestral Obbligato (1983-85)
Souvenir (1983) organ
Thirty Pieces for String Quartet (1983)
Writing Through Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1983)
A Collection of Rocks (1984) choir and orchestra
Eight Whiskus (1984) voice
Improvisation (1984) ensemble
Mirakus^2 (1984) voice
Music for Five (1984)
Music For ________ (1984-87)
Musicircus for Children (1984) 1000 singing children
Nowth Upon Nacht (1984) voice and closed piano [Joyce]
Perpetual Tango (1984) piano
Selkus^2 (1984) voice
Thirty Movements (1984) quartet
Writing Through Duchamp's Notes (1984)
ASLSP (1985) piano
But What About the Noise of Crumpling Paper Which He Used to Do in
Order to Paint the Series of "Papiers Froisses" or Tearing Up
Paper to Make "Papiers Dechires?" Arp Was Stimulated by Water
(Sea, Lake, and Flowing Waters Like Rivers), Forests (1985)
Sonnekus^2 (1985) voice
Voiceless Essays (1985-87) 18 cassette players
Writing Through On The Duty of Civil Disobedience (1985)
Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras (1986) orchestras and tape
Haikai (1986) gamelan
Hymnkus (1986) alto flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, 2 pianos
Rocks (1986) percussion
Thirteen Harmonies (1986) violin and keyboard
Wishing Well (1986) 4 speakers
Empty Mind (1987) text for a game of listening
Essay (1987) computer generated tape
Europeras 1 & 2 (1987) 19 singers, 21 musicians, tape
Organ^2/ASLSP (1987) organ
Three Composed Improvisations (1987) drums or bass guitar
Truckera (1987) tape for Europeras
Two (1987) piano and flute
Anarchy (1988)
Five (1988) 5 instruments or voices
Five Stone Wind (1988) percussion
Four Solos for Voices (1988) sop, mez, ten, bass
One (1988) piano
I-VI (1988) voice [mesostics from a variety of sources]
1O1 (1988) orchestra
Seven (1988) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello
Twenty-Three (1988) 13 violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos
Europera 3 (1989) 6 singers, 2 pianos, 12 victrolas, tape
Europera 4 (1989) 2 singers, 1 piano, tape
Four (1989) string quartet
Sculpures Musicales (1989) 4 performers with electronic instruments
Stufen: an Autoku for Siegfried Unseld (1989) voice
Swinging (1989) piano
Three (1989) 3 recorders
Two^2 (1989) 2 pianos, 4 hands
Four^2 (1990) chorus
Fourteen (1990) ensemble
Haikai (1990) flute and zoomoozophone
One^2 (1990) piano
One^3 (1990)
One^4 (1990) percussion
One^6 (1990) violin
Scottish Circus (1990)
Seven^2 (1990) bass flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, two
percussionists, cello and contrabass
The Beatles 1962-1970 (1990) tape of pianos
Eight (1991) ensemble
Europera 5 (1991) 2 voices, piano, victrola, tape
Five^2 (1991) ensemble
Five^3 (1991) trombone and quarteto d'archi
Five^4 (1991) 2 saxophones and 3 percussions
Five^5 (1991) ensemble
Five Hanau silence (1991)
Four^3 (1991) 2 pianos, violin (or oscillator), and rainsticks
Four^4 (1991) percussion
Four^5 (1991) 4 saxophones
One^7 (1991) voice
One^8 (1991) cello -may be performed with 108
One^9 (1991) sho
103 (1991) orchestra
108 for Large Orchestra (1991)
Six (1991) percussion
Ten (1991) chamber ensemble
Three^2 (1991) 3 percussionists
Twenty-Six (1991) 26 violins
Twenty-Eight (1991) ensemble
Twenty-Nine (1991) ensemble
Two^3 (1991) sho and conch shell
Two^4 (1991) violin and piano or sho
Two^5 (1991) trombone and piano
Eighty (1992) orchestra
Fifty-Eight (1992) ensemble
Four^6 (1992) 4 performers
Muoyce No.2 (1992) text and 6 tapes
One^10 (1992) cello
One^11 (1992) film
One^12 (1992) lecturer
One^13 (1992) violin - not completed
Otte (1992) violin
Seventy-Four (1992) orchestra
Sixty-Eight (1992) orchestra
Thirteen (1992) ensemble
Two^6 (1992) violin and piano