Dance Music: for Elfrid Ide

John Cage

General Info

Year: 1940
Duration: c.
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Peters
Cost: Score and Parts - €39.80   |   Score Only - $0.00

Instrumentation

Player 1: Claves
Player 2: Rattle
Player 3: Cowbells
Player 4: Slitblock
Player 5: 3 Tom Toms (High)
Player 6: 3 Tom Toms (Low)

Program Notes

A John Cage percussion sextet, DANCE MUSIC FOR ELFRID IDE, will be given its modern world premiere on May 16th, 2007 over Hungarian Radio by the Amadinda Percussion Group. The work, which was accidentally discovered in 2005 by Laura Kuhn of the John Cage Trust while she was visiting the Mills College Archives searching for the manuscript of a different John Cage work, received its first and probably only other performance at Mills College on May 20, 1941.

John Cage was a member of the Dance Faculty at Mills College during 1940 and 1942, and he supplied music for the dance classes of Marian van Tuyl, the principal dance professor at the college. He wrote this work to accompany part of the Thesis Dance Concert of Elfrid Ide who was a graduate student and dance instructor at Mills.

Don Gillespie the editor of the soon to be published new edition of DANCE MUSIC FOR ELFRID IDE notes in the Preface that it is astonishing that this work which comes from a period during which Cage wrote many of his classic percussion pieces has remained unknown until now.

Recent Performances

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Works for Percussion by this Composer

27' 10.554" for a Percussionist - Multiple Percussion
Amores - Percussion Trio; Piano
Branches - Percussion Duo
But what about the noise of crumpling paper.....? - Percussion Sextet
Child of Tree - Multiple Percussion
Composed Improvisation for Snare Drum - Snare Drum
Composed Improvisation: for one-sided drum with or without jangles - Multiple Percussion
Composed Improvisation: for Snare Drum Alone - Snare Drum
Credo in US - Percussion Quartet
Dance Music: for Elfrid Ide - Percussion Sextet; Dancer
Double Music - Percussion Quartet - Cage/Harrison
First Construction (in metal) - Percussion Quintet; Piano
Forever and Sunsmell - Percussion Duo; Voice
Four4 - Percussion Quartet
Imaginary Landscape No.2 - Percussion Quintet
Imaginary Landscape No.3 - Percussion Sextet
Imaginary Landscape No.4 or March No. 2 - 12 Radios - 24 Players
Inlets - Percussion Trio; Conch Shells
Living Room Music - Percussion Quartet
One4 - Multiple Percussion
Quartet - Percussion Quartet
R= Ryoanji - Multiple Percussion
Second Construction - Percussion Trio; Piano
She is Asleep: Quartet - Percussion Quartet; Voice; Piano
Six - Percussion Sextet
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs Multiple Percussion (Piano); Voice
Third Construction - Percussion Quartet
Three2 - Percussion Trio
Trio - Percussion Trio