Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

The Sonatas and Interludes are Cage’s masterwork for prepared piano. It was Cage’s first composition inspired by Hindu philosophy, composed in a period of reading the works of the Indian art historian and critic Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. In these compositions, Cage expresses his interpretation of the permanent emotions of Indian tradion: The Heroic, the Erotic, the Wondrous, the Comic, Sorrow, Fear, Anger, the Odious (the four dark moods) and their common tendency toward tranquility.

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SKU#: 98-EP6755
ISBN-10: 030074157X
ISBN-13: 9790300741574
Series: Edition Peters
Format: Book
Contributors: By John Cage
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