List of compositions by John Cage

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This is a list of compositions by John Cage (1912–1992), arranged in chronological order by year of composition.

Contents 1 List of works 2 Happenings 3 Collaborations 4 Arrangements 5 Unfinished and incomplete works 6 Lost works 7 Literary works 8 External links

[edit] List of works

• Greek Ode, for voice and piano (1932)
• First Chapter of Ecclesiastes (The Preacher), for voice and piano (1932, possibly incomplete)
• Three Songs for voice and piano (1932-3)
• Three Easy Pieces (1. Round in A minor, 2. Duo in G major, 3. Infinite canon in F minor) for piano (1933)
• Clarinet Sonata (1933)
• Sonata for Two Voices for two instruments with specified ranges (1933)
• Composition for 3 Voices for three unspecified instruments (1934)
• Solo with obbligato accompaniment of two voices in canon, and six short inventions on the subjects of the solo, for three or more instruments (1934, six inventions revised 1958)
• Quartet for any four percussion instruments (1935)
• Two pieces for piano (1935, revised 1974)
• Three pieces for two flutes (1935)
• Trio for three percussionists (1936)
• Metamorphosis, for piano (1938)
• Five Songs for contralto soloist and piano (1938)
• Music for Wind Instruments, for wind quintet (1938)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 1, for two variable-speed phono turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano and cymbal (1939)
• First Construction (in Metal), for six percussionists with an assistant (1939)
• A Chant With Claps, for voice (1940, possibly c. 1947)
• Dance Music: for Elfrid Ide, for percussion ensemble and piano (1940)
• Second Construction, for four percussionists (1940)
• Bacchanale, for prepared piano (1940)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (first version), for tape, string piano and percussion (1940, withdrawn by Cage)
• Fads and Fancies in the Academy, for five performers with various objects (1940)
• Living Room Music, for percussion and speech quartet (1940)
• Opening Dance for Sue, for piano (1941)
• Third Construction, for four percussionists (1941)
• Dance to the West, for piano (1942)
• Forever and Sunsmell, for low voice and piano (1942)
• Totem Ancestor, for prepared piano (1942)
• Jazz Study, for piano (1942, spurious work possibly not by Cage)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 3, for six percussionists (1942)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March) (1942, first title Imaginary Landscape No. 4)
• The City Wears a Slouch Hat, for narrator and six percussionists (1942)
• Credo In Us, for four performers with various objects (1942)
• And The Earth Shall Bear Again, for prepared piano (1942)
• The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, for voice and closed piano (1942)
• Primitive, for prepared piano (1942)
• In the Name of the Holocaust, for prepared piano (1942)
• Ad lib, for piano (1943)
• Our Spring Will Come, for prepared piano (1943)
• A Room, for piano or prepared piano (1943, originally third part of She is Asleep)
• She Is Asleep: 1. Quartet for percussion, 2. Duet for voice and prepared piano (1943)
• Amores, for percussion and prepared piano (1943)
• Four Dances (What So Proudly We Hail), for voice and prepared piano (1943)
• Tossed As It Is Untroubled, for prepared piano (1943, first title Meditation)
• Triple-Paced No. 1, for piano (1943)
• Four Walls, for piano and voice (in one of the movements) (1944)
• Prelude for Meditation, for prepared piano (1944)
• Root of an Unfocus, for prepared piano (1944)
• Spontaneous Earth, for prepared piano (1944)
• The Unavailable Memory of, for prepared piano (1944)
• Triple-Paced No. 2, for prepared piano (1944)
• The Perilous Night, suite for prepared piano (1944)
• A Valentine Out of Season, for prepared piano (1944)
• A Book of Music, for two prepared pianos (1944)
• Crete, for piano (1944-5)
• Dad, for piano (1944-5)
• Mysterious Adventure, for prepared piano (1945)
• Soliloquy, for piano (1945, originally part of Four Walls)
• Experiences No. 1, for two pianos 4 hands (1945)
• Three Dances for two prepared pianos (1945)
• Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, for prepared piano (1945)
• Ophelia, for piano (1945)
• Prelude for six instruments in A minor for flute, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and piano (1946, an arrangement of the second piece from Two Pieces for piano of 1946)
• Two Pieces for piano (1946)
• Music for Marcel Duchamp, for prepared piano (1947)
• Nocturne, for violin and piano (1947)
• Ballet The Seasons, versions for piano and for orchestra (1947)
• Dream, for piano or viola and ensemble of 4 violas (1948)
• Experiences No. 2 for voice (1948)
• In a Landscape for piano or harp (1948)
• Sonatas and Interludes, for prepared piano (1946-8)
• Suite for Toy Piano, for toy piano or piano (1948)
• A Flower, for voice and closed piano (1950)
• Works of Calder, film score for prepared piano and tape (1950)
• String Quartet in Four Parts, for string quartet (1949-50)
• Six Melodies, for violin and keyboard instrument (1950)
• Concerto for prepared piano, for prepared piano and chamber orchestra (1950-51)
• Haiku [5], for piano (1950-51)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (March No. 2), for 12 radios, 24 performers and a conductor (1951)
• Music of Changes, for piano (1951)
• Sixteen Dances for flute, trumpet, 4 percussionists, piano, violin and cello (1950-51)
• Seven Haiku, for piano (1951-52)
• For M.C. and D.T., for piano (1952)
• 4′33″ for any instrument or combination of instruments (1952, second version 1960)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 5 for any 42 recordings (1952)
• Music for Carillon No. 1, for carillon (1952)
• Music for Piano 1, for piano (1952)
• Two Pastorales, for piano or prepared piano (1952)
• Water Music for pianist using various objects (1952)
• Waiting, for piano (1952)
• Williams Mix, for tape (1952)
• 59½" For a String Player, for any 4-string instrument (1953)
• Music for Piano 2, for piano (1953)
• Music for Piano 3, for piano (1953)
• Music for Piano 4-19, for any number of pianos (1953)
• Music for Piano 20, for piano (1953)
• Music for Carillon No. 2, for carillon (1954)
• Music for Carillon No. 3, for carillon (1954)
• 34'46.776" For a Pianist, for prepared piano (1954)
• 31'57.9864" For a Pianist, for prepared piano (1954)
• 26'1.1499" For a String Player, for string instrument (1955)
• Music for Piano 21-36, 37-52, for piano solo or in an ensemble (1955)
• Speech 1955, for news reader and 5 radios (1955)
• 27'10.554" For a Percussionist, for percussion (1956)
• Music for Piano 53-68, for piano solo or in an ensemble (1956)
• Music for Piano 69-84, for piano solo or in an ensemble (1956)
• Radio Music, for 1 to 8 performers using radios (1956)
• For Paul Taylor and Anita Dencks, for piano (1957)
• Winter Music, for piano (1957)
• Concert for piano and orchestra (1957-8)
• Aria, for voice (1958)
• Fontana Mix, for tape (1958)
• Haiku, for any instruments or objects (1958)
• Music Walk, for piano and various objects (1958)
• Solo for Voice 1, for voice (1958)
• TV Köln, for piano, optionally with other objects (1958)
• Variations I, for any number of performers and any kind and number of instruments (1958)
• Sounds of Venice, for television set (one performer) (1959)
• Water Walk, a work for a TV show for one performer with a variety of objects (1959)
• Cartridge Music, for amplified sounds (1960)
• Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, for any number of toy pianos (1960)
• Music for "The Marrying Maiden" (music for a play), for tape (1960)
• Solo for Voice 2, for solo voice or chorus (1960)
• Theatre Piece, for 1 to 8 performers (1960)
• WBAI (1960) - auxiliary score for performance with other works
• Where Are We Going? And What Are We Doing?, composed lecture, tapes (1960-61)
• Atlas Eclipticalis for an ensemble of 86 instruments (1961-2)
• Music for Carillon No. 4, for electronic instrument with accompaniment (1961)
• Variations II, for any number of performers and any kind and number of instruments (1961)
• Music for Piano 85, for piano and electronics (1962)
• Variations III, for any number of people performing any actions (1962)
• 0'00" (4'33" No. 2), solo for any performer (1962)
• Variations IV for any number of performers, any sounds or combinations of sounds produced by any means, with or without other activities (1963)
• Electronic Music for Piano, for solo piano (or any number of pianos) with electronics (1964)
• Rozart Mix, tape loops (1965)
• Variations VI, for a plurality of sound systems (1966)
• Music for Carillon No. 5, for a four-octave instrument (1967)
• Assemblage, for electronics (1968)
• Cheap Imitation, for piano (1969, orchestrated 1972, violin version 1977)
• HPSCHD, for 1 to 7 amplified harpsichords and 1 to 51 tapes (1969, accompanied with Program (KNOBS) for the listener - an instruction for playing back the recording of the piece)
• Sound Anonymously Received, for an unsolicited instrument (1969, possibly 1978)
• Untitled (Work for Antoinette Vischer), for harpsichord (1969)
• Dialog (or Dialogue), for two performers with various objects (1970)
• Mureau, for one or more speakers and tape ad lib (1970)
• Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92), for one or more voices (1970, Solo for Voice 85 arranged for violin as Chorals in 1978)
• WGBH-TV, for composer and technicians (1971)
• Bird Cage, for 12 tapes (1972)
• Etcetera, for small orchestra, tape and, optionally, 3 conductors (1973)
• Exercise, for an orchestra of soloists (1973, based on Etcetera)
• Etudes Australes, for piano (1974)
• Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, for 23 performers; any instruments and/or voices (1974)
• Child of Tree (Improvisation I), for percussion made of plants and/or plants used as percussion (1975)
• Lecture on the Weather, lecture for 12 voices and tapes (1975)
• Renga, 78 parts for any instruments and/or voices (1975-6)
• Branches, for percussion made of plants or plants used as percussion (1976)
• Quartets I-VIII, for orchestra (1976, three versions for 24, 41 and 93 performers; arranged for 12 amplified voices and concert band in 1978 )
• Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto (Il Treno), for "prepared train" (1977)
• Cassette for five performers with any number of tapes (1977, used in Address - see Happenings)
• 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs, for performer(s), or listener(s), or record maker(s) (1977)
• Freeman Etudes, for violin (1977)
• Inlets (Improvisation II), for four performers with conch shells and the sound of fire (1977)
• Telephones and Birds, for three performers (1977)
• A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Fifty-six Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, for performer(s) or listener(s) or record maker(s) (1978)
• Etudes Boreales, for cello and/or piano (1978)
• Some of the "Harmony of Maine", for organist and three assistants (1978)
• Variations VIII, no music or recordings (1978)
• ____,____ ____ circus on ____, means of transcribing any book for any ensemble (1979, realized the same year as Roaratorio, an Irish circus on Finnegans Wake, tape)
• Hymns and Variations, for twelve amplified voices (1979)
• Furniture Music Etcetera, for two pianos (1980, based partly on Etcetera)
• Improvisation III, for four or more cassette players (1980)
• Litany for the Whale, for two voices (1980)
• Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras, for five orchestras (1981)
• An Alphabet, radio play (1982)
• Dance/4 Orchestras, for four orchestras (1982)
• Fifteen Domestic Minutes, for record players at different radio stations (1982)
• Improvisation IV (Fielding Sixes), for three cassette players (1982)
• Instances of Silence, for any number of cassette players and tapes (1982)
• Postcard from Heaven, for 1 to 20 harps (1982)
• ear for EAR (Antiphonies), for voices (1983)
• HMCIEX, tape for radio (1983)
• R/13 (where R=Ryoanji), for percussionist with thirteen found objects (1983)
• Ryoanji, for double bass, trombone, oboe, voice, percussion, small orchestra (1983, parts added in 1983-5 and 1992 (unfinished cello part))
• Souvenir, for organ (1983)
• Thirty Pieces for String Quartet, for string quartet (1983)
• A Collection of Rocks, for choir and orchestra (1984)
• Eight Whiskus, for low voice (1984)
• Haikai, for flute and zoomoozophone (1984)
• Mirakus², for voice (1984)
• Selkus², (1984)
• Music for ________, seventeen parts with no score, for a variable chamber ensemble (1984)
• Nowth upon Nacht, for voice and piano (1984)
• Perpetual Tango, for piano (1984)
• The first meeting of the Satie society the socie satiety, for two speakers, one female singer, musicians and/or tapes (1984)
• ASLSP, for piano or organ (1985)
• 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, for percussion ensemble (1985)
• Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras, for four orchestras and tape (1985)
• Sonnekus², for voice (1985)
• Voiceless Essay, for four computer-generated tapes (1985)
• Haikai, for gamelan ensemble (1986)
• Hymnkus, for voice and chamber ensemble (1986)
• Improvisation A+B, for voice, clarinet, trombone, percussion and orchestra (1986)
• Rocks, for various electronic devices (1986)
• Wishing Well, for four speakers (1986)
• Essay (Writing through the Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"), for computer-generated tapes (1987)
• Europeras 1 & 2, for 19 voices and 21 musicians (1987, Europeras include a piece for tape called Truckera, also 1987)
• Organ²/ASLSP, for organ (1987)
• One, for piano (1987)
• Two, for flute and piano (1987)
• Five, for any five instruments or voices (1988)
• Five Stone Wind, for three performers with clay drums, electronics and unspecified instruments (1988)
• Solos for Voice 93-96 (Four Solos for Voice), for voice(s) (1988)
• 101, for orchestra (1988)
• Seven, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello (1988)
• Twenty-Three, for 13 violins, 5 violas and 5 cellos (1988)
• Four, for string quartet (1989)
• One², for 1 to 4 pianos (1989)
• One³, for solo performer (1989)
• Sculptures Musicales, for electronics (1989)
• Sports: Swinging, after Satie, for piano (1989)
• Three, for three recorders (1989)
• Two², for two pianos (1989)
• c Composed Improvisations, for bass guitar, snare drum and one-sided drums with or without jangles (1990)
• Europeras 3 & 4, for 6 voices, 2 pianos, 12 victrolas and tape (1990, Europeras include a piece for tape called Truckera, composed 1987)
• Four², for SATB choir (1990)
• Fourteen, for piano, flute/piccolo, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass (1990)
• One⁴, for solo drummer (1990)
• One⁵, for piano (1990)
• One⁶, for violin (1990)
• One⁷, for any sound-producing object (1990)
• Scottish Circus, for Scottish folk band of any number of musicians and any instruments/voices (1990)
• Seven², for bass flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, two percussionists with unspecified instruments, cello and contrabass (1990)
• The Beatles 1962-1970, piano and, optionally, tape (1990)
• Eight, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone and tuba (1991)
• Europera 5, for 2 voices, piano, victrola, tape/TV/radio (1991)
• Five², for English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet and timpani (1991)
• Five³, for trombone and string quartet (1991)
• Five⁴, for soprano saxophone, alto saxophone and 3 percussionists (1991)
• Five⁵, for flute, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet and percussion (1991)
• Five Hanau Silence, for tape (1991)
• Four³, for one or two pianos, twelve rainsticks and violin/oscillator, all operated by four performers (1991)
• Four⁴, for percussionists with unspecified instruments (1991)
• Four⁵, for four saxophones (1991)
• Lullaby, for musical box (1991)
• Mozart Mix, for five cassette players (1991)
• One⁸, for cello (1991)
• One⁹, for sho (1991)
• 103, for orchestra (1991)
• 108, for orchestra (1991)
• Six, for six percussionists with unspecified instruments (1991)
• Ten, for flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola and cello (1991)
• Three² for three percussionists with unspecified instruments (1991)
• Twenty-Six, for 26 violins (1991)
• Twenty-Eight, for wind ensemble (1991)
• Twenty-Nine, for two timpani, two percussionists, piano and strings (1991)
• Twenty-Eight, Twenty-Six and Twenty-Nine, for orchestra (1991, a combination of Twenty-Six, Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine)
• Two³, for sho and five conch shells (1991)
• Two⁴, for violin and piano or sho (1991)
• Two⁵, for piano and tenor trombone (1991)
• Eighty, for orchestra (1992)
• Fifty-Eight, for wind orchestra (1992)
• Four⁶, for four performers with any means of producing sounds (1992)
• Muoyce II (Writing through Ulysses), for speaker and tapes (1992)
• One¹⁰, for violin (1992)
• One¹¹, for solo cinematographer (1992)
• One¹², for solo lecturer (1992)
• Seventy-Four, for orchestra (1992)
• Sixty-Eight, for orchestra (1992)
• Thirteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, trumpet in C, tenor trombone, tuba, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola and cello (1992)
• Two⁶, for violin and piano (1992)

[edit] Happenings

• Black Mountain Piece, mixed-media performance (1952, only a fragment survives)
• Variations V, audio-visual performance (1965)
• Variations VII, mixed-media performance (1966)
• Musicircus, mixed-media performance (1967)
• Newport Mix, event with audience-provided tape loops (1967)
• Reunion, event (1968)
• Mewantemooseicday, event (1969)
• 33 1/3, installation with record players (1969)
• Demonstration of the Sounds of the Environment, event (1971)
• Les chants de Maldoror pulvérises par l'assistance même, event (1971)
• Apartment House 1776, mixed-media event (1976)
• Address, mixed-media event (1977)
• Sounday (Toneday), radio event (1978)
• Concerto Grosso, installation (1979)
• Paragraphs of Fresh Air, radio event (1979)
• Silent Environment (1979)
• Evéne/Environne METZment (1981)
• A House Full of Music, for 200 performers from music schools (1982)
• Musicircus for Children (1984, based on A House Full of Music)

[edit] Collaborations

• Marriage at the Eiffel Tower for two pianos and various objects (1939) - with Henry Cowell, George Frederick McKay, Silvestre Revueltas, and Amadeo Roldán
• Double Music, for four percussionists (1941) - with Lou Harrison
• Party Pieces: Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses for any melodic and/or keyboard instruments (1945) - with Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison and Virgil Thomson
• Music for "Museum Event No. 5", mixed-media performance (1967) - with Toshi Ichiyanagi, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor
• Vis-à-vis, for two performers (1986) - with Toru Takemitsu

[edit] Arrangements

• Arrangement of Socrate (Erik Satie) (1944 or 1947)
• Adaptation of Ixion (Morton Feldman) for chamber ensemble or 2 pianos (1958)
• Collage of some Studies for Player Piano (Conlon Nancarrow) on tape (1964)
• Adaptation of some Studies for Player Piano (Conlon Nancarrow) (1969)

[edit] Unfinished and incomplete works

• Quest for various objects (first movement) and piano (second movement) (1935, only the second movement survives)
• Chess Pieces, for piano (1943)
• Encounter, for piano (1946)
• Unfinished work for voice (1953)
• Unfinished work for magnetic tape (c. 1952-3)
• One¹³, for one live cello and recordings of three cellos (1992)
• Sixteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, piano, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass (1992)

[edit] Lost works

This section lists works for which the location of manuscript is unknown, or which possibly were not notated.

• Untitled composition, 1931
• Etudes for piano (1932, possibly same as the untitled composition of 1931)
• Duet for two flutes (1934)
• Music for Xenia, for piano (1934)
• Allemande for clarinet (1934)
• String Quartet (1936)
• Music for an Aquatic Ballet (1938)
• 25 Ballets in 1 act for a solo dancer (1939)
• Ho to AA, for voice and piano (1939)
• America was promises, for voice and piano 4 hands (1940)
• Four songs of the moment, for piano (1940)
• Prelude to Flight, for piano? (1940)
• Spiritual, for piano (1940)
• Opening dance, for piano (1942)
• Shimmera, for prepared piano (1942)
• Lidice, for prepared piano (1943)
• The Feast, for piano (1945)
• Thin Cry, for piano (1945)
• Foreboding, for piano (1946)
• Orestes, for piano? (1948)
• First Week of June (1970)
• Untitled (work for Joao Miró), for piano (1970)
• 52/3 (1972)
• Music for "Westbeth", for piano? (1974)
• Pools, for a single performer (1978, based on Inlets)
• Seventeen, for (1992, possibly similar to Sixteen or does not exist)
• Otte, for violin (1992, spurious, probably not by Cage or does not exist)

[edit] Literary works

• Silence: Lectures and Writings (1961)
• A Year from Monday (1968)
• M (1973)
• Empty Words (1979)
• X (1983)

[edit] External links

• John Cage works catalogue at the John Cage database, contains details on individual pieces, exact dates of composition and first performances, an extensive discography, etc.
• John Cage Chronological Catalog of Music compiled by Larry Solomon, includes an alphabetic list as well; details on individual compositions (some minor errors and omissions)
• Unrecorded John Cage Works with details on events and a list of lost works