Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Thomas Moore <>]

It does indeed. I have Bob Dunn's copy of the score—he performed these with John, and the score is filled with timings and pencilled-in jottings, but there's nothing written at that D-flat.

Tom

On Monday, March 24, 2014, Rob Haskins <> wrote:

Analyzing Music for Piano 21, I notice that it includes an unplayable note (D-flat above the highest C on the piano). It's very confusing to me, because this is one Cage himself played with Tudor regularly; surely he knew the note couldn't be played. What did he do? Are there any pianists on the list who play this one and can tell me what they do? 

Rob

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