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MUSIC FOR MERCE (BOX SET)

by Various Artists

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    11+ Hours of Music!
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1.
For Magnetic Tape (Wolff) 05:23
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For Piano I (Wolff) 05:18
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3.
Music for Piano 1-20 (Cage) 16:12
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4.
Indices [excerpt] (Brown) 20:51
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5.
Quantitäten (Nilsson) 12:30
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6.
Ixion (Feldman) 20:20
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Variations V [excerpt] (Cage) 13:41
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8.
Mesa (Mumma) 19:36
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9.
Activities for Orchestra (Ichiyanagi) 24:07
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...for nearly an hour... [excerpt] (Behrman) 03:22
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In Memoriam: Nikola Tesla, Cosmic Engineer [excerpt] (Oliveros) 09:47
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12.
For 1,2, or 3 People [excerpt] (Wolff) 12:07
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13.
Burdocks [excerpt] (Wolff) 16:59
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52/3 [excerpt] (Cage) 16:39
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Telepos (Mumma) 18:25
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Toneburst (Tudor) 17:43
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S.E. Wave/E.W. Song [excerpt] (Kosugi) 13:02
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Remainder [excerpt] (Amacher) 14:55
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Equal Distribution [excerpt] (Gibson) 12:14
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Inlets [excerpt] (Cage) 10:16
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Weatherings [excerpt] (Tudor) 14:53
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22.
Geography and Music [excerpt] (Tone) 21:17
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Phonemes [excerpt] (Tudor) 13:59
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24.
Sextet for Seven (Tudor) 18:13
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Spacings (Kosugi) 23:51
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gliss in sighs (King) 16:18
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27.
Voiceless Essay [excerpt] (Cage) 10:58
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28.
Webwork [excerpt] (Tudor) 10:45
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29.
Peace Talks [excerpt] (Pugliese) 11:43
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Spectra (Kosugi) 20:28
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Sculptures Musicales [excerpt] (Cage) 12:13
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Virtual Focus [excerpt] (Tudor) 15:14
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Four³ [excerpt] (Cage) 15:23
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Neural Network Plus [excerpt] (Tudor) 13:28
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blues '99 [excerpt] (King) 19:09
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Underground Overlays [excerpt] (Dempster) 15:21
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Four6 [excerpt] (Cage) 11:16
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38.
Wave Code A-Z (Kosugi) 14:41
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Or 4 People (Wolff) 06:16
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108 and One8 [excerpt] (Cage) 14:17
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lontermparking [excerpt] (King) 15:30
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Long Throw [excerpt] (Behrman) 18:26
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Jitterbug [excerpt] (Lockwood) 20:17
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44.
Event - February 16, 1993, Red Wing Minnesota [excerpt] 05:57
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Event - September 14, 1993, Annemasse, France [excerpt] 05:53
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Event-June 5, 1997, Frankfurt [excerpt] 07:30
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Event-September 12, 1998, Minneapolis [excerpt] 05:22
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48.
Event-September 29, 2002, Oslo [excerpt] 04:13
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Event-October 30, 2002, Munich [excerpt] 06:50
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Event-December 14, 2004, New York City [excerpt] 03:54
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Event-December 15, 2004, New York City [excerpt] 06:55
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Event-December 18, 2004, New York City [excerpt] 06:36
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53.
Event-June 14, 2005, London [excerpt] 05:21
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Event-June 17, 2005, London [excerpt] 08:43
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Event-June 23, 2007, New Canaan, Connecticut [excerpt] 03:08
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Event-February 22, 2009, Beacon, New York [excerpt] 05:16
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Works by JOHN CAGE, DAVID TUDOR, TAKEHISA KOSUGI, MARYANNE AMACHER, DAVID BEHRMAN, EARLE BROWN, STUART DEMPSTER, MORTON FELDMAN, JON GIBSON, TOSHI ICHIYANAGI, JOHN KING, ANNEA LOCKWOOD, GORDON MUMMA, BO NILSSON, PAULINE OLIVEROS, MICHAEL PUGLIESE, YASUNAO TONE, CHRISTIAN WOLFF AND OTHERS

11+ Hours of Music!

|| The physical 10-CD set can be ordered at our website: www.newworldrecords.org/products/music-for-merce-box-set ||

The late Merce Cunningham was renowned for his legendary collaborations with the most significant experimental musicians of the late 20th century. Particularly notable is his association with John Cage, who served as the founding musical director of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until Cage’s death in 1992.

Spanning six decades from the early 1950s onward, these recordings capture the breadth of the Cunningham repertory and the rich diversity of Cunningham’s musical collaborations. Composers whose work features prominently in this collection include seminal figures of late-20th-century experimental music such as John Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, Christian Wolff, and Takehisa Kosugi, among others.

For the most part, these compositions have not been recorded elsewhere and are making their first appearance here. This is a document of enormous historical import that will be a revelation to both listeners and scholars interested in the evolution of American experimental music over the past five decades.

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released June 9, 2011

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