Pianos and voices / John Cage, Meredith Monk.
| Author/creator | De Mare, Anthony vocalist, instrumentalist. |
| Format | Audio (CD) |
| Publication Info | Westbury, N.Y. : Koch International Classics, ℗1992. |
| Description | 1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Joyce, James, 1882-1941. Finnegans wake. |
| Included Work | Monk, Meredith. Specimen days. Travel song. |
| Included Work | Monk, Meredith Paris. |
| Included Work | Monk, Meredith. Education of the girlchild. Tale. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. She is asleep. Room. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Tossed as it is untroubled. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Root of an unfocus. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Primitive. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Pieces, piano (1974) |
| Included Work | Cage, John. In a landscape. |
| Included Work | Monk, Meredith. Games. Gamemaster's song. |
| Included Work | Monk, Meredith. Games. Memory song. |
| Included Work | Monk, Meredith. Double fiesta. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Ophelia. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. ASLSP. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Wonderful widow of eighteen springs. |
| Included Work | Cage, John. Nowth upon nacht. |
| Contents | Travel song (1981) [from opera Specimen days] (1:34) ; Paris (1972) (3:22) ; The tale (1973) [from opera Education of the girl child] (2:37) / Meredith Monk -- A room (1943) (1:44) ; Tossed as it is untroubled (1943) (2:26) ; Root of an unfocus (1944) (5:00) ; Primitive (1942) (3:39) ; Two pieces for piano (ca. 1935; rev. 1974). Slowly (1:38) ; Quite fast (1:10) ; In a landscape (1948) / John Cage -- Gamemaster's song (1983) [from theatre piece Games] (4:20) ; Memory song (1983) [also from Games] (5:32) ; Double fiesta (1986) (5:41) / Meredith Monk -- Ophelia (1946) (6:39) ; ASLSP (1985) (6:25) ; The wonderful widow of eighteen springs (1942) (2:32) ; Nowth upon nacht (1984) (:49) / John Cage. |
| General note | Subtitle on spine: Music by Cage and Monk. |
| General note | The 1st four Cage works are for prepared piano; the 5th-7th works are for piano; the 8th work, a chance composition, is also for piano; the last two works, both based on text from James Joyce's Finnegan's wake, are "sung music, accompanied by tapping on different parts of a piano with its keyboard lid closed." |
| General note | The Monk works, except for Paris (for piano) and Double fiesta (for vocalist and piano duo, performed here by overdubbing), are excerpts from operas or theatre pieces, for piano or vocalisations with piano. |
| General note | Compact disc. |
| General note | Program notes by Mark Swed ([6] p.) inserted in container. |
| Performer | Anthony de Mare, piano and vocals. |
| Other title | Music by Cage and Monk. |
| UPC | 9992371042 |
| Publisher number | 3-7104-2H1 Koch International Classics |