John Cage - compositions in alphanumeric order.  

Cage created various nonnotated collaborative works that he does not claim
as his own; for the most part these works are excluded from this list. Most
works are published by Henmar/Peters unless otherwise stated. 

* = location of this score is unknown
List recently updated thanks to collection of Josh Ronsen, U.Texas.


0'00" (4' 33" (no.2)) "solo to be performed in any way by anyone" Henmar
Press, 1962.

0'00" No. 2 (1968)

1O1 (1988) orchestra

103 (1991) orchestra

108 for Large Orchestra (1991)

2 Pieces, pf, 1974. 

26' 1.1499", str player, 1955. (duets also) Henmar Press, 1960.

26' 1.499", str player, 1953-5. ??? 

27' 10.554", "for a percussionist", 1956. Henmar Press, 1960. 

30 Pieces for 5 Orchestras, 1981.

30 Pieces for String Quartet, 1983. 

31' 57.9864", "for a pianist", prepared pf, 1954. Henmar Press, 1960. 

33 1/3, any recordings, audience, 1969, unpubd.  

34' 46.776", "for a pianist", prepared pf, 1954. Henmar Press, 1960.

4' 33", tacet for any inst/insts, 1952. Henmar Press, 1960. (Peters, 1965).

45' for a Speaker (1954)

49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs, any number of players, any means, 1977; 
piano, 1981.

5 Songs for contralto and piano (e.e. cummings), A, pf, 1938. Henmar Press,
1960.

59 1/2" "for a string-player" any 4-string inst, 1953. Henmar Press, 1960.

A Book of Music, 2 prepared pf, 1944. Henmar Press, 1960. (Robert Fizdale 
and Arthur Gold)

A Chant With Claps (1947?) voice and claps

A Collection of Rocks, orch without cond. and choir, 1984-5. 

A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, 62 Waltzes, and 56 Marches for Chicago
and Vicinity, listener, pfmr and/or recorder, 1978.

Ad Lib (1943) prepared piano

A Flower, lv, closed pf, 1950. {Louise Lippold}

A House Full of Music, 1982. 

Alla Ricerca del Silenzio Perduto (1977) tape and microphone

Allemande (1934)  clarinet

Alphabet (1982) radio theater with tape

America Was Promises (1940) * voice and 2 pianos

Amores for piano and percussion, (solo for prep pf, trio (9 tom-toms, pod
rattle), trio (7 woodblocks, not Chinese), solo for prep pf), prep pf, 2
perc, 1943. Henmar Press, 1960.
        Solo
        Trio
        Trio -identical to Trio (1936)
        Solo

Anarchy (1988) voice [various anarchist writers]

And the Earth shall Bear Again, prepared pf, 1942.

Apartment House 1776, orchestra and 4 vocalists, mixed media, 1976.

Aria for voice, unacc, 1958; Henmar Press, 1960, Peters, 1965. used Fontana 
Mix materials (Cathy Berberian)

A Room, (for piano, with or without preparations) 1943. Henmar Press, 1968.

ASLSP (1985) piano

Atlas Borealis, orch, vv, 1982. 

Atlas Eclipticalis, any ens from 86 insts, 1961-62. 

A Valentine out of Season, "music for Xenia to play on a prepared grand
piano", 1934. Henmar Press, 1960.

Bacchanale, prepared pf, ?1938, 1940? {Syvilla Fort} Henmar Press, 1960.

Bird Cage, 12 tapes, 1972.  

Black Mountain Piece (1952) -only extant part is for film projector (see 
Theatre Pc)

Branches, perc solo/ens, amp plant materials, 1976.  

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 (1985) percussion, water, paper.

Cartridge Music, (also Duet for Cymbal: piano duet, trio, etc.) amp sounds,
1960. Henmar Press, 1960. Peters, 1965.

Cheap Imitation, pf, 1969: (Socrate, Satie);  orchd 1972, violin solo version 
edited by Paul Zukofsky, Henmar Press, 1977. 

Chess Pieces (1943) piano

Chicago and Vicinity, listener, pfmr and/or recorder, 1978.

Child of Tree, perc using amp plant materials, 1975. 

Chorals, vn, 1978. derived from Satie material and adapted from Song 
Books (1970)

Communication (1958) for speaker

Composition for Three Voices, 3 or more insts, 1934.

Composition in Retrospect, computer, 1981.

Concert for Piano and Orchestra, (or solo for piano) for Elaine de Kooning,
1957-8. Henmar Press, 1960.

Concerto Grosso for 4 TV Sets and 12 Radios (1979)

Concerto, prepared pf, chamber orch, (in 3 parts) 1950-51. Henmar Press,
1960.

Counterpoint (1934/1937?) * piano

Credo in Us, (music for the dance which was made by Merce Cunningham and
Jean Erdman) 4 perc, 1942. Henmar Press, 1962.

Crete (1944) piano

Dad (1944) piano

Dance (1942) * piano

Dance Four Orchestras, 1981.

Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, (music for the dance by Jean Erdman)
prepared pf, 1945. Henmar Press, 1977.

Demonstration of the Sounds of the Environment (1971 1973?) tape

Dialog (1979) conductors

Double Music, 4 perc, 1941, collab. - Lou Harrison composed 2 of 4 
concurrent parts. C. F. Peters, 1961.

Dream, pf, 1948.

Dreams that Money can Buy, film score, 1947, unpubd.

Duet for Cymbal (1960) (also Cartridge Music)

Duet for Two Flutes (1934) *

Ear for Ear, vv, 1983.

Eight (1991) ensemble

Eight Whiskus (1984) voice [untitles text, Chris Mann]

Eighty (1992) orchestra

Electronic Music for Piano, pf + elec, 1964.

Empty Mind (1987) text for a game of listening

Empty Words (1973-78) voice [The Journal, Thoreau]

Encounter (1946) piano

Essay (1987) computer generated tape [Thoreau] {Points in Space}

Etcetera, small orch, tape, 1973. 20 musicians, 3 conductors, tape of 
forest sounds {Un Jour ou Deux}

Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras (1986) orchestras and tape of city sounds

Etudes Australes, 32 pieces, pf, 1974-5. Henmar Press, 1975. (Grete 
Sultan)

Etudes Borealis, pf and/or vc, 1978. (Jack/Jeanne Kirstteins)

Europeras 1 & 2 (1987) 19 singers, 21 musicians, tape

Europera 3 (1989) 6 singers, 2 pianos, 12 victrolas, tape

Europera 4 (1989) 2 singers, 1 piano, tape

Europera 5 (1991) 2 voices, piano, victrola, tape/television/radio

Evene/Environne METZment (1981) audience

Exercise (1973-84) orchestra

Expriences (II), duo for 2 pf, solo for lv (Cummings), 1945-8.

Fads and Fancies in the Academy (1940) piano and percussion

Fifteen Domestic Minutes (1982) letters and radio

Fifty-Eight (1992) brass and wind instruments

First Chapter of Ecclesiastes (1932) piano

First Construction (in Metal), 6 perc with assistant, 1939. Henmar Press,
1962.

Five (1988) 5 instruments or voices

Five^2 (1991) ensemble

Five^3 (1991) trombone and quarteto d'archi

Five^4 (1991) 2 saxophones and 3 percussions

Five^5 (1991) ensemble

Five Hanau Silence (1991) 5 tapes recorded at 5 locations -also called 
Project for Hanau Squatters

Five Songs for Contralto (1938) voice and piano [Cummings]
        Little Four Paws
        Little Christmas Tree
        In Just-
        Hist Whist
        Tumbling Hair

Five Stone Wind (1988) percussion w or w/o electronics

Fontana Mix, tape, 1958.

Foreboding (1946) * piano

For M. C. and D. T., pf, (charts from Music of Changes) 1952. Henmar Press, 
1962; Peters, 1965.

For Paul Taylor and Anita Dencks, pf, 1957. (piano interior or other 
instruments)

Forever and Sunsmell (Cummings), lv, 2 perc, 1942.

Four (1989) string quartet

Four^2 (1990) chorus

Four^3 (1991) 2 pianos, violin (or oscillator), and rainsticks - [Vexations, 
Satie] {Beach Birds}

Four^4 (1991) percussion

Four^5 (1991) 4 saxophones

Four^6 (1992) 4 performers -first part is One^7 {?, Cunningham}

Four Dances (1944) piano, percussion and voice

Four Solos for Voices (1988) sop, mez, ten, bass

Four Songs of the Moment (1940) * piano

Fourteen (1990) ensemble

Four Walls (M. Cunningham), pf, vocal interlude, 1944.

Freeman Etudes, vn, 1977-80, 1989-90. (Paul Zukofsky)

Furniture Music Etcetera (1980) 2 pianos

Greek Ode (1932) voice and piano [Aeschylus, The Persians]

Haikai (1986) gamelan

Haikai (1990) flute and zoomoozophone

HMCIEX (1983-84) tape and voice -i.e. Here Comes Everybody MIX

Ho to AA (C. Tracy), lv, pf, 1939, unpubd. *

HPSCHD, for 1-7 amp hpd, 1-51 computer-generated tapes, slides, 
1967-9, collab. with Lejaren Hiller @ Univ. of Illinois.

Hymns and Variations, 12 amp vv, 1979.

Hymnkus (1986) alto flute, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, 2 pianos

Il treno, 3 happenings for prepared trains, 1978, unpubd.

Imaginary Landscape no. 1, for 2 variable-speed turntables, frequency
recordings, muted pf, cymbal, 1939. Henmar Press, 1960.

Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (1940) -disliked by Cage and hence another 
No.2 (1942)

Imaginary Landscape no. 2 (or March no. 1), 5 perc, elec. 1942. Henmar 
Press,
1960.

Imaginary Landscape no. 3, for six percussionists, audio-frequency 
oscillators, variable-speed turntables, elec buzzer, amp wire, amp mar, 
contact mikes. 1942. Henmar Press, 1961.

Imaginary Landscape no. 4 (or March no. 2), 12 radios, 24 players, 1951. 
Henmar Press,
1960.

Imaginary Landscape no. 5, tape, 1952; tape of 42 records.

Imitations II (1976) clarinet

Improvisation (1984) ensemble

Improvisations III, tape, 1980, unpubd.

Improvisations IV, 1982.

Indeterminacy (1959) voice, piano and tape

Inlets (Improvisation II) (1977) conch shells, water, tape {Cunningham}

In the name of the Holocaust, prepared pf, 1942.

In a Landscape, for piano or harp solo, 1948. Henmar Press, 1960. {Louise 
Lippold}

Inlers, conch shells, tape, 1977.

Instances of Silence, installation, tapes, 1940 ?1982, unpubd.  

I-VI (1988) voice, mesostics from a variety of sources.

Jazz Study (1942) piano -spurious

J.Joyce, M.Duchamp, E.Satie: an Alphabet, 1979.

Lecture on Commitment (1961) voice

Lecture on the Weather, 12 inst/vv, tapes, film, 1975. 

Les chants de Maldoror pulverises par l'assistance meme, French-speaking
audience of not more the 200, 1971.

Letters to Erik Satie, lv, tape, 1978, unpubd.

Lidice (1945) * piano

Litany for the Whale, 2 solo vv, 1980.

Living Room Music, for percussion and speech quartet, with or without
instrumental solo with percussion trio, 1940. Henmar Press, 1976.
        To Begin
        A Story  -with voice [Stein]
        Melody?/To End With?

Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (1939/1936?) piano, trombone, percussion 
orchestra.

Meditation: (first part identical to "Tossed as it is untroubled", prep. pf, 
1943; Henmar Press, 1960.

Metamorphosis, pf, 1938.

Mewantemooseicday (1969) event @ U.C. Davis, collab. with Larry Austin.

Mirakus^2 (1984) voice. Marcel Duchamp, Notes (1983), Alexia Duchamp 
and Paul Matisse.

Muoyce No.2 (1992) text and 6 tapes [Joyce]

Mureau, mix from Thoreau's Journal, 1970-72.

Muscircus, mixed-media event, 1967.

Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, 1960.

Music for an Aquatic Ballet (1938) *

Music for Carillon no.1, 1952.

Music for Carillon nos. 2-3, 1954. 3 is No.2 performed backwards.

Music for Carillon no.4, 1961, rev. 1966.

Music for Carillon no. 5, 1967.

Music for Five (1984)

Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) prepared piano, used for Hans Richter film

Music for Piano 1, 1952. {Paths and Events, JoAnne Melchen}

Music for Piano 2, 1953. 

Music for Piano 3, 1953.

Music for Piano 4-19, 1953 - {Solo Suite in Space and Time/Suite for 5?}

Music for Piano 20, 1953. Henmar Press, 1961.

Music for Piano 21-36, 1955. Henmar Press, 1960.

Music for Piano 37-52, 1955. Henmar Press, 1960.

Music for Piano 53-68, 1956.

Music for Piano 69-84, 1956. 

Music for Marcel Duchamp, prepared pf, 1947. Henmar Press, 1961.

Music for The Marrying Maiden (J.Maclow), tape, 1960.

Music for Wind Instruments, (Trio for fl cl bsn, Duet for ob hn, wind qnt: 
fl, cl, hn, bsn. 1938. Henmar Press, 1961.

Music for "Works of Calder" (1950) prepared piano and recorded sounds.

Music for Xenia (A Valentine out of Season), prepared pf, 1934.

Music for ---, fl, cl, vn, vc, 3 perc, pf, trbn, 1984-7. 

Musicirus (1967) event

Musicircus for Children (1984) 1000 singing children

Music of Changes, pf, 1951. Henmar Press, 1961.

Music Walk, "for 1 or more pianists, who also play radios and produce
auxiliary sounds by singing of other means" pf (1 or more players), 1958;
Henmar Press, 1960. (used Fontana Mix materials).

Mysterious Adventure, (music for the dance by Merce Cunningham) prepared
pf, 1945. Henmar Press, 1982.

Newport Mix, tape loops, 1967, unpubd.

Newth upon Nacht, lv, pf, 1984.

Nocturne, vn, pf, 1947. Henmar Press, 1972.

One (1988) piano

One^2 (1990) piano

One^3 (1990)

One^4 (1990) percussion

One^6 (1990) violin (Jénos Négyesy)

One^7 (1991) performer -first part of Four^6

One^8 (1991) cello -may be performed with 108 (Michael Bach)

One^9 (1991)

One^10 (1992) cello -for Mineko Grimmeer sculpture

One^11 (1992) film

One^12 (1992) improvising voice

One^13 (1992) cello - not completed (Michael Bach)

Opening Dance (1942) * piano

Ophilia, (music for the dance by Jean Erdman) pf, 1946. Henmar Press, 1977.

Organ^2/ASLSP (1987) organ

Orestes (1948/1946?) piano -fragmentary

Otte (1992) violin

Our Spring will Come, pf, 1943.

Paragraphs of Fresh Air (1979) radio

Party Pieces (Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses), c1945, 20 pieces by Cage,
Cowell, Harrison, Thomson [arr. fl, cl, bn, hn, pf, by R. Hughes].

Perpetual Tango (1984) piano

Piano Etudes (1932)

Pools (1978) conch shells and tape

Postcard from Heaven, 1-20 harps, 1982.

Prelude for Meditation, prepared pf, 1944. Henmar Press, 1960.

Prelude for 6 Instruments in A Minor (1946)

Primitive, prepared ("string") pf, 1942.

Primitve: Music for Dance, pf, 1977.

Program (KNOBS) for listener (1971) -used with HPSCHD LP

Quartet, 4 perc, 1935. Henmar Press, 1977.

Quartets I-VIII, 24/41/93 inst, 1976. part I also known as Music for 
Concert Band and 12 Amplified Voices

Quest, 2nd movt, pf, 1935.

Radio Music, 1 to 8 radios, 1956.

Renga (1975-76) orchestra

Reunion, diverse pfmrs, 1968, unpubd, collab. D. Behrman, L. Cross, Mumma,
Tudor. Tenney, Duchamp; electronics and chess board gate.

Roaratorio, an Irish Circus of Finnegans Wake, voice, tape, elec, Irish 
Musicians. 1979.

Rocks (1986) percussion

Root of an Unfocus, prepared pf, 1944. Henmar Press, 1960.

Rozart Mix, tape, 1965.

Ryoanji, vv, fl, ob, db, perc, small orch, 1984-5.

Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, any insts/vv, 1974. Henmar
Press, 1978.

Scottish Circus (1990) concurrent traditional Scottish music

Sculpures Musicales (1989) 4 performers with electronic instruments

Second Construction, 4 perc, 1940. Henmar Press, 1978.

Selkus^2 (1984) voice [same as Mirakus^2]

Seven (1988) flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola and cello

Seven^2 (1990) bass flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, two 
percussionists, cello and contrabass.

Seven Haiku, pf, 1951-52. Henmar Press, 1960.

Seventeen (1992) -only 4 parts written

Seventy-Four (1992) orchestra

Sixty-Eight (1992) orchestra

She is Asleep, qt for 12 tomtom, duet for lv, prepared pf, 1943. Henmar
Press, 1960.
        Quartet -12 tom-toms
        Duet - voice, prepared piano
        A Room -prepared piano or piano

Shimmera (1942) * prepared piano

Short Inventions on the Subject of the Solo, 3 or more insts, 1933-4.

Silent Environment (1979) installation

Six (1991) percussion

Six Melodies, vn, pno, 1950.

Six Short Inventions, a fl, cl, tpt, vn, 2 va, vc, 1934. trios of flute, clarinet, 
trumpet, violin, 2 violas, cello -revised 1958

Sixteen Dances, fl, tpt, 4 perc, vn, vc, 1951. (Cunningham)

Sixty-Two Mesostics Re Merce Cunningham, voice using microphone, 
Henmar Press, 1971.

Soliloquy (1945) piano -modified excerpt from Four Walls (1944)

Solo For Clarinet (1933)

Solo for Voice 1, 1958

Solo for Voice 2, 1960.

Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short
Inventions of the Subject of the Solo, 3, or more insts, 1933-4. Henmar
Press, 1963.

Some of the Harmony of Maine, org, 3/6 assistants, 1978.

Someday. radio event, 1978, unpubd.

Sonata for Two Voices, any 2 or more insts, 1979.

Sonata for Two Voices, 2 or more insts, 1933.

Sonata, cl, 1933. Henmar Press, 1963.

Sonatas and Interludes, prepared pf, 1946-8. Henmar Press, 1960.

Song Books (Solos for Voice 3-92), Henmar Press, 1970. Voice, electronics, 
events.

Sonnekus^2 (1985) voice [Genesis] -may be performed with Satie caberet 
songs

Sound Anonymously Received, any insts, 1969, unpubd.

Sounday (1978) 10-hour radio event

Sounds of Venice, TV piece, 1959: tv's and tapes; bells, boat horns, and a 
toy that meows like a cat.

Souvenir, org, 1983.

Speech, 5 radios, newsreader, 1955.

Spiritual (1940) * piano

Spontaneous Earth, prepared pf, 1944.

String Quartet (1936) *

String Quartet in four parts, 1949-50, Henmar Press, 1960.

Stufen: an Autoku for Siegfried Unseld (1989) voice

Suite, toy pf/pf, 1948.

Swinging (1989) piano

Telephones and Birds, 3 pfmrs, 1977. recordings and telephone announcements

Ten (1991) chamber ensemble

Theatre Piece, 1-8 pfmrs, 1960, Henmar Press, 1977.

The Beatles 1962-1970 (1990) tape of pianos [The Beatles Songbook]

The City Wears a Slouch Hat (for Kenneth Patchen radio play) perc, record 
players; 1942, unpubd.

The Feast (1946) * piano

The Perilous Night, (suite for piano solo) prepared pf, 1944, Henmar Press,
1960.

The Seasons (ballet, 1 act), orch/pf, 1947. (Cunningham)

The Unavailable Memory of, prepared pf, 1944.

The Unavailable Memory of, prepared insts, 1977.

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (Joyce), lv, closed pf, 1942.

Thin Cry (1945) * piano

Third Construction, 4 perc, 1941. Henmar Press, 1970.

Thirteen (1992) ensemble

Thirteen Harmonies (1986) violin and keyboard

Thirty Movements (1984) quartet

Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras (1981)

Thirty Pieces for String Quartet (1983)

Three (1989) 3 recorders

Three^2 (1991) 3 percussionists

Three Composed Improvisations (1987) drums or bass guitar

Three Dances, 2 prepared pf, 1944, Henmar Press, 1977. (Robert Fizdale and 
Arthur Gold)

Three Pieces, 2 fl, 1935. Henmar Press, 1969.

Three songs (G. Stein), lv, pf, 1933.
        Twenty Years After
        Is It as It Was
        At East and Ingredients

Tossed as it is Untroubled (meditation), prepared pf, 1943.

Totem Ancestor, prepared pf, 1942.

Trio, suite, 3 perc, 1936, Henmar Press, 1977. Allegro/March/Waltz -waltz 
used in Amores (1943)

Triple-Paced (1943) prepared piano

Truckera (1987) tape for Europeras

TV Koeln, pf, 1958.

Twenty-Three (1988) 13 violins, 5 violas, 5 cellos

Twenty-Six (1991) 26 violins

Twenty-Eight (1991) ensemble

Twenty-Nine (1991) ensemble

Two (1987) piano and flute

Two^2 (1989) 2 pianos, 4 hands

Two^3 (1991) sho (Mayumi Miyata) and conch shell/percussion

Two^4 (1991) violin (Paul Zukofsky) and piano or ?

Two^5 (1991) trombone and piano

Two^6 (1992) violin and piano (Ami Flammer/Martine Joste)

Two Pieces for Piano (1935)

Two Pieces for piano, pf, 1946. Henmar Press, 1974.

Two Pastorales, prepared pf, 2 whistles, 1951. Henmar Press, 1960.

Unfinished Work for Voice (1953) -unfinished

Unfinished Work for Magnetic Tape (1953) -unfinished

Variations I, any number of players, any insts, 1958.

Variations II, any number of players, any means, 1961.

Variations III, any number of people performing any actions, 1962-3.

Variations IV, any number of players, any means, 1963.

Variations V, audio-visual perf., perc. and tape, 1965.

Variations VI, plurality of sound systems, 1966.

Variations VII, any number of players, any means, 1966, radios, geiger 
counters, telephones, etc.

Variations VIII, poster, 1978.

Voiceless Essays (1985-87) 18 cassette players -material from Essay 
(1987) w/o vowels

Waiting, pf, 1952.

Water Music, pianist with radio, whistles, water, deck of cards, 1952, 
Henmar Press, 1960.

Water Walk, TV piece, 1959. tv and tape; mechanical fish, duck call,
 bathtub, etc

WBAI, auxiliary score for perf. with other works, 1960.

WGBH-TV, composers and technicians, 1971.

What We've So Proudly Hailed (1943) voice, 2 pianos and percussion

Where are we going? And what are we doing?, lecture on 4 1-track tapes,
1960.

Williams Mix, 8 1-track and 4 2-track tapes, 1952.

Winter Music, 1-20 pf, 1957, Henmar Press, 1960.

Wishing Well (1986) 4 speakers

Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegan's Wake (1977) [Joyce]

Writing Through Duchamp's Notes (1984)

Writing Through Kafka's Die Verwandlung (1983)

Writing Through Finnegans Wake (1977) [Joyce]

Writing Through On The Duty of Civil Disobedience (1985)

Writing Through the Cantos of Ezra Pound (1982)

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