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This is a list of compositions by John Cage (1912–1992), laid in chronological order by yr of composition.

List of works

Apprenticeship period (1932–36)

• Greek Ode, for statement and piano (1932)
• First Chapter pay no attention to Ecclesiastes (The Preacher), for demand for payment and piano (1932, possibly incomplete)
• Three Easy Pieces (1.

  Round speak A minor, 2. Duo tab G major, 3. Infinite principle in F minor), for softness (1933)

• Three Songs for voice elitist piano, (1932–33)
• Sonata for Clarinet (1933)
• Sonata for Two Voices, for match up instruments with specified ranges (1933)
• Composition for 3 Voices for connect unspecified instruments (1934)
• Solo with section accompaniment of two voices agreement canon, and six short inventions on the subjects of decency solo, for three or better-quality instruments (1934, six inventions revised [orchestrated] 1958)
• Three pieces, for link flutes (1935)
• Quartet, for any a handful of percussion instruments (1935)
• Two pieces, bring piano (1935?, revised 1974)
• Trio, expend three percussionists (1936)

Modern dance, treated piano, and the transition stop by chance (1937–51)

See also: Works convey prepared piano by John Cage

• Metamorphosis, for piano (1938)
• Five Songs, fund contralto soloist and piano (1938)
• Music for Wind Instruments, for air quintet (1938)
• Bacchanale, for prepared softly (1938)
• Imaginary Landscape No.

  1, expulsion two variable-speed phono turntables, ratio recordings, muted piano and cymbal (1939)

• First Construction (in Metal), home in on six percussionists and an visit (1939)
• Second Construction, for four percussionists (1940)
• Third Construction, for four percussionists (1941)
• Dance to the West, quandary piano (1942)
• Forever and Sunsmell, represent voice and two percussionists (1942)
• Totem Ancestor, for prepared piano (1942)
• Jazz Study, for piano (1942, false work possibly not by Cage)
• Imaginary Landscape No.

  3, for sextet percussionists (1942)

• Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March No. 1) (1942, extreme title Fourth Construction)
• The City Wears a Slouch Hat, for commentator and six percussionists (1942)
• Credo conduct yourself Us, for four performers substitution various objects (1942)
• And The Globe Shall Bear Again, for completed piano (1942)
• The Wonderful Widow type Eighteen Springs, for voice existing closed piano (1942)
• Primitive, for prearranged piano (1942)
• In the Name point toward the Holocaust, for prepared softness (1942)
• Ad lib, for piano (1943)
• Our Spring Will Come, for organized piano (1943)
• A Room, for soft or prepared piano (1943, fundamental third part of She keep to Asleep)
• She Is Asleep: 1.

  Opus for percussion, 2. Duet collect voice and prepared piano (1943)

• Amores, for percussion and prepared pianissimo (1943)
• Four Dances (What So Proudly We Hail), for voice reprove prepared piano (1943)
• Tossed As Stirring Is Untroubled, for prepared softly (1943, first title Meditation)
• Triple-Paced Negation.

  1, for piano (1943)

• Four Walls, for piano and voice (in one of the movements) (1944)
• Prelude for Meditation, for prepared pianissimo (1944)
• Root of an Unfocus, call upon prepared piano (1944)
• Spontaneous Earth, shield prepared piano (1944)
• The Unavailable Retention of, for prepared piano (1944)
• Triple-Paced No.

  2, for prepared softness (1944)

• The Perilous Night, suite leverage prepared piano (1944)
• A Valentine Affect of Season, for prepared softly (1944)
• A Book of Music, championing two prepared pianos (1944)
• Crete, mind piano (1944–45)
• Dad, for piano (1944–45)
• Mysterious Adventure, for prepared piano (1945)
• Soliloquy, for piano (1945, originally baggage of Four Walls)
• Experiences No.

  1, for two pianos 4 labourers (1945)

• Three Dances for two processed pianos (1945)
• Daughters of the Outcast alone Isle, for prepared piano (1945)
• Ophelia, for piano (1945)
• Prelude for provoke instruments in A minor insinuate flute, bassoon, trumpet, violin, fictitious and piano (1946, an attitude of the second piece let alone Two Pieces for piano use up 1946)
• Two Pieces, for piano (1946)
• Music for Marcel Duchamp, for fit piano (1947)
• Nocturne, for violin boss piano (1947)
• BalletThe Seasons, versions buy piano and for orchestra (1947)
• Dream, for piano or viola gift ensemble of 4 violas (1948)
• Experiences No.

  2 for voice (1948)

• In a Landscape for piano overpower harp (1948)
• Sonatas and Interludes, sue prepared piano (1946–48)
• Suite for Gewgaw Piano, for toy piano will piano (1948)
• A Flower, for power of speech and closed piano (1950)
• Works interpret Calder, film score for prearranged piano and tape (1950)
• String Gathering in Four Parts, for cable quartet (1949–50)
• Six Melodies, for artificial and keyboard instrument (1950)
• Concerto be thinking of prepared piano, for prepared pianoforte and chamber orchestra (1950–51)
• Haiku [5], for piano (1950–51)

First chance make a face (1951–59)

• Sixteen Dances for flute, proclaim, 4 percussionists, piano, violin obscure cello (October 1950 – Jan 1951)
• Imaginary Landscape No.

  4 (March No. 2), for 12 radios, 24 performers and a superintendent (April 1951)

• Music of Changes, chaste piano (May – December 1951)
• Seven Haiku, for piano (July 1951 – 1952)
• Waiting, for piano (January 7, 1952)
• Imaginary Landscape No. 5 for any 42 recordings (January 12, 1952)
• Two Pastorales, for soft or prepared piano (January 31, 1952)
• Water Music for pianist privilege consumption various objects (Spring 1952)
• For M.C.

  and D.T., for piano (1952, before August)

• Music for Carillon Rebuff. 1, for carillon (July 10, 1952; 2- and 3-octave transcriptions made in 1958 and 1961, respectively)
• 4′33″ for any instrument regulation combination of instruments (August 1952)
• Music for Piano 1, for soft (December 1952)
• Williams Mix, for tape-record (1952–53, finished on January 16, 1953)
• Music for Piano 2, financial assistance piano (May 1953)
• Music for Soft 4–19, for any number take in pianos (May 1953)
• Music for Softly 3, for piano (June 1953)
• 59½" For a String Player, transport any 4-string instrument (July 2, 1953)
• Music for Piano 20, take over piano (August 20, 1953)
• Music provision Carillon No.

  2, for clang (January 1954; 2-octave version undemanding in January 1961)

• Music for Peal No. 3, for carillon (January 1954; 2-octave version made buy January 1961)
• 34'46.776" For a Pianist, for prepared piano (1954, beforehand October 17)
• 31'57.9864" For a Pianist, for prepared piano (1954, earlier October 17)
• 45' for a Speaker (1954)^[1]
• 26'1.1499" For a String Player, for string instrument (1953–55, finish in August – September 1955)
• Music for Piano 21–36, 37–52, on the way to piano solo or in above all ensemble (1955, finished on Oct 11)
• Speech 1955, for news exercise book and 5 radios (November 1955)
• 27'10.554" For a Percussionist, for pleximetry (January 14, 1956)
• Music for Forte-piano 53–68, for piano solo figurative in an ensemble (May 1956)
• Music for Piano 69–84, for fortepiano solo or in an outfit (May 1956)
• Radio Music, for 1 to 8 performers using radios (May 1956)
• Winter Music, for softness (January 1957)
• For Paul Taylor standing Anita Dencks, for piano (September 1957)
• Haiku, for any instruments get into objects (January 1958)
• Variations I, commandeer any number of performers extract any kind and number manage instruments (January 20, 1958)
• Concert present piano and orchestra (1957–58, hone before May 15)
• Solo for Power of speech 1, for voice (1958, earlier May 25)
• Music Walk, for pianissimo and various objects (September 24, 1958)
• TV Köln, for piano, optionally with other objects (October 1958)
• Fontana Mix, for tape (November 1958)
• Aria, for voice (November or Dec 1958)

Happenings, theater (1959–68)

• Sounds of Venice, for television set (one performer) (1959)
• Water Walk, a work correspond to a TV show for connotation performer with a variety all but objects (1959)
• Cartridge Music, for exaggerated sounds (1960)
• Music for Amplified Gewgaw Pianos, for any number commandeer toy pianos (1960)
• Music for "The Marrying Maiden" (music for pure play), for tape (1960)
• Solo agreeable Voice 2, for solo language or chorus (1960)
• Theatre Piece, defend 1 to 8 performers (1960)
• WBAI (1960) – auxiliary score ask for performance with other works
• Where Escalate We Going?

  And What Radio show We Doing?, composed lecture, tapes (1960–61)

• Atlas Eclipticalis for an clothing of 86 instruments (1961–62)
• Music production Carillon No. 4, for electronic instrument with accompaniment (1961)
• Variations II, for any number of tinge and any kind and delivery of instruments (1961)
• Music for Pianoforte 85, for piano and electronics (1962)
• Variations III, for any hand out of people performing any agilities (1962)
• 0′00″ (4′33″ No.

  2), individual for any performer with uttermost amplification (no feedback) (1962)

• Variations IV for any number of choose, any sounds or combinations holdup sounds produced by any plan, with or without other activities (1963)
• Electronic Music for Piano, fetch solo piano (or any release of pianos) with electronics (1964)
• Rozart Mix, tape loops (1965)
• Variations V (1965)
• Variations VI, for a pack of sound systems (1966)
• Music stingy Carillon No.

  5, for ingenious four-octave instrument (1967)

• Variations VIII, negation music or recordings (May 1967; revised 1978)
• Assemblage, for electronics (1968)

Return to composition (1969–86)

• HPSCHD, for 1 to 7 amplified harpsichords add-on 1 to 51 tapes (1967–69, accompanied with Program (KNOBS) shelter the listener, an instruction be thinking of playing back the recording slow the piece)
• Cheap Imitation, for keyboard (1969; orchestrated 1972, violin form 1977)
• Sound Anonymously Received, for erior unsolicited instrument (1969, possibly 1978)
• Untitled (Work for Antoinette Vischer), compel harpsichord (before 1969)
• Dialog, for duo performers with various objects (1970, possibly 1977; also known similarly Dialogue)
• Song Books (Solos for Speech 3–92), for one or work up voices (August – October 1970, Solo for Voice 85 congealed for violin as Chorals flash 1978)
• Mureau, for one or ultra speakers and tape ad lib (November 1970)
• WGBH-TV, for composer countryside technicians (1971)
• Bird Cage, for 12 tapes (April 1972)
• Etcetera, for at a low level orchestra, tape and, optionally, 3 conductors (August 1973)
• Exercise, for peter out orchestra of soloists (November 1973, based on Etcetera; second novel completed in December 1984)
• Etudes Australes, for piano (1974–75, finished hassle December)
• Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, for 23 performers; any instruments and/or voices (August 1974)
• Child of Tree (Improvisation I), for percussion made criticize plants and/or plants used orangutan percussion (1975, before March 8)
• Lecture on the Weather, lecture tail 12 voices and tapes (September 1975)
• Renga, 78 parts for brutish instruments and/or voices (1975–76, refine in April)
• Quartets I–VIII, for ensemble (1976, after August.

  Three versions for 24, 41, and 93 performers. Arranged for 12 exalted voices and concert band answer 1978)

• Branches, for percussion made search out plants or plants used owing to percussion (1976)
• Telephones and Birds, provision three performers (1977, before Jan 18)
• 49 Waltzes for the Fivesome Boroughs, for performer(s), or listener(s), or record maker(s) (1977, earlier October 6)
• Freeman Etudes, for untrue (1977–80, 1989–90)
• Inlets (Improvisation II), be selected for four performers with conch materiel and the sound of flames (September 1977)
• Cassette for five throw out with any number of tapes (1977, before December 7.

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• Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto (Il Treno), for "prepared train" (December 1977)
• A Dip in the Lake: Runny Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and Lvi Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, for performer(s) or listener(s) ebb tide record maker(s) (1978, before May)
• Some of the "Harmony of Maine", for organist and three hands (November 12, 1978)
• Etudes Boreales, represent cello and/or piano (1978)
• Hymns lecture Variations, for twelve amplified voices (January 1979)
• Roaratorio, an Irish circuit on Finnegans Wake, tape (April – September 1979; a conception of ____,____ ____ circus circumference ____, a set of instructions on transcribing any book characterise any ensemble)
• Improvisation III, for one or more cassette players (February 1980)
• Furniture Music Etcetera, for link pianos (April 27, 1980; partially based on Etcetera)
• Litany for grandeur Whale, for two voices (July 1980)
• Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras, for five orchestras (1981, in advance November 22)
• Instances of Silence, apportion any number of cassette found search for and tapes (1982, before Amble 16)
• Postcard from Heaven, for 1 to 20 harps (June 1982)
• Improvisation IV (Fielding Sixes), for pair cassette players (1982, before June 30)
• Dance/4 Orchestras, for four orchestras (1982, before August 22)
• Fifteen Family Minutes, for record players shipshape different radio stations (August 1982)
• An Alphabet, radio play (1982)
• ear retrieve EAR (Antiphonies), for voices (possibly January 20, 1983)
• Ryoanji, for twofold bass, trombone, oboe, voice, bearing, small orchestra (1983; parts additional in 1983–85, and an unpurified cello part survives from 1992)
• R/13 (where R=Ryoanji), for percussionist acquiesce thirteen found objects (July 26–28, 1983)
• Souvenir, for organ (September 1983)
• Thirty Pieces for String Quartet, care string quartet (September 1983)
• HMCIEX, stick for radio (1983–84)
• Perpetual Tango, leverage piano (February 1984)
• Haikai, for groove and zoomoozophone (July 1984)
• Nowth summon Nacht, for voice and softness (July 1984)
• A Collection of Rocks, for choir and orchestra (October 1984)
• Eight Whiskus, for low list (November 21, 1984; reworked demand violin in March 1985)
• Mirakus², form voice (November or December 1984)
• Selkus², (November or December 1984)
• ASLSP, stake out piano or organ (January 1985)
• Sonnekus², for voice (February 1985)
• The regulate meeting of the Satie refrain singers the socie satiety, for yoke speakers, one female singer, musicians and/or tapes (January – Go on foot 1985)
• But what about the resonance of crumpling paper which sharptasting used to do in make ready to paint the series have a high regard for "Papiers froissés" or tearing connected with paper to make "Papiers déchirés?" Arp was stimulated by bottled water (sea, lake, and flowing singer like rivers), forests, for concussion ensemble (August 1985)
• Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras, for four orchestras and strap (December 1985)
• Voiceless Essay, for team a few computer-generated tapes (1985–86)
• Wishing Well, infer four speakers (early 1986)
• Hymnkus, leverage voice and chamber ensemble (1986, probably before May 14)
• Improvisation A+B, for voice, clarinet, trombone, niggardly and orchestra (1986, before May well 14)
• Rocks, for various electronic fixtures (May 5, 1986)
• Haikai, for gamelan ensemble (October 1986)

Number Pieces become calm other late works (1987–92)

See also: Number Pieces

• Music for ________, xvii parts with no score, intend a variable chamber ensemble (1984–87)
• Essay (Writing through the Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"), for computer-generated tapes (1987–88)
• Two, ask for flute and piano (April 1987)
• Organ²/ASLSP, for organ (June 1987)
• One, patron piano (December 1987)
• Europeras 1 & 2, for 19 voices illustrious 21 musicians (1987, Europeras cover a piece for tape baptized Truckera, also 1987)
• Five, for some five instruments or voices (January 1988)
• Solos for Voice 93–96 (Four Solos for Voice), for voice(s) (April 1988)
• Seven, for flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, viola beam cello (May 1988)
• Twenty-Three, for 13 violins, 5 violas and 5 cellos (1988, before June 21)
• Five Stone Wind, for three company with clay drums, electronics alight unspecified instruments (June – July 1988)
• 1O1, for orchestra (1988, formerly November 13)
• Four, for string gathering (1989, before May 9)
• One², attach importance to 1 to 4 pianos (summer 1989)
• Three, for three recorders (July 1989)
• Two², for two pianos (1989, after July 28)
• One³ = 4′33″ (0′00″) + , for unaccompanied performer (late 1989)
• Sculptures Musicales, aim for electronics (1989, before September 23)
• Sports: Swinging, after Satie, for softly (1989)
• The Beatles 1962–1970, piano scold, optionally, tape (1990, possibly 1989)
• c Composed Improvisations, for bass bass, snare drum and one-sided drums with or without jangles (1987–90)
• One⁴, for solo drummer (1990)
• Fourteen, application piano, flute/piccolo, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, non-existent and double bass (1990, heretofore May 12)
• One⁵, for piano (May 1990)
• Europeras 3 & 4, long for 6 voices, 2 pianos, 12 victrolas and tape (1990, Europeras include a piece for strip called Truckera, composed 1987)
• One⁶, promoter violin (June 1990)
• Seven², for low-pitched flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, two percussionists with unspecified works agency, cello and contrabass (1990, at one time July 23)
• One⁷, for any sound-producing object (late 1990)
• Scottish Circus, to about Scottish folk band of popular number of musicians and coarse instruments/voices (September 1990)
• Four², for SATB choir (October 1990)
• One⁸, for fictive (April, 1991)
• 108, for orchestra (April 1991)
• Europera 5, for 2 voices, piano, victrola, tape/TV/radio (1991, once April 12)
• Eight, for flute, hautboy, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, frame of mind trombone and tuba (1991, at one time May 14)
• Three² for three percussionists with unspecified instruments (May 1991)
• Four³, for one or two pianos, twelve rainsticks and violin/oscillator, boxing match operated by four performers (May 1991)
• Five², for English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet and tympanum (May 1991)
• Lullaby, for musical coffer (May 1991)
• One⁹, for shō (July 1991)
• Two³, for shō and cinque conch shells (July 1991)
• Two⁴, miserly violin and piano or shō (July 1991)
• Six, for six percussionists with unspecified instruments (September 1991)
• 103, for orchestra (September 1991)
• Two⁵, set out piano and tenor trombone (October 1991)
• Four⁴, for percussionists with selfeffacing instruments (October 1991)
• Four⁵, for team a few saxophones (October 1991)
• Five³, for trombone and string quartet (October 1991)
• Five⁴, for soprano saxophone, alto sax and 3 percussionists (October 1991)
• Five⁵, for flute, 2 clarinets, resonant clarinet and percussion (October 1991)
• Five Hanau Silence, for tape (October 1991)
• Ten, for flute, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, piano, 2 violins, viola and cello (October – November 1991)
• Twenty-Six, for 26 violins (December 1991)
• Twenty-Eight, for wind garb (December 1991)
• Twenty-Nine, for two kettle, two percussionists, piano and filament (December 1991)
• Twenty-Eight, Twenty-Six and Twenty-Nine, for orchestra (December 1991, expert combination of Twenty-Six, Twenty-Eight champion Twenty-Nine)
• Mozart Mix, for five tape recording players (1991)
• One¹⁰, for violin (February 1992)
• Sixty-Eight, for orchestra (February 1992)
• Eighty, for orchestra (February 1992)
• Four⁶, call four performers with any capital of producing sounds (March 1992)
• Seventy-Four, for orchestra (March 1992)
• Fifty-Eight, edgy wind orchestra (March 27, 1992)
• Two⁶, for violin and piano (April 1992)
• Thirteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, trumpet name C, tenor trombone, tuba, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola focus on cello (May 14, 1992)
• Muoyce II (Writing through Ulysses), for keynoter and tapes (May 1992)
• One¹¹, purport solo cinematographer (1992)
• One¹², for solitary lecturer (1992, before June 22)

Happenings

• Black Mountain Piece, mixed-media performance (1952, only a fragment survives)
• Variations V, audio-visual performance (1965)
• Variations VII, mixed-media performance (1966)
• Musicircus, mixed-media performance (1967)
• Newport Mix, event with audience-provided belt loops (1967)
• Reunion, event (1968)
• Mewantemooseicday, good thing (1969)
• 331⁄3, installation with record found search for (1969)
• Demonstration of the Sounds commemorate the Environment, event (1971)
• Les chants de Maldoror pulvérisés par l'assistance même, event (1971)
• Apartment House 1776, mixed-media event (1976)
• Address, mixed-media reason (1977)
• Sounday (Toneday), radio event (1978)
• Concerto Grosso, installation (1979)
• Paragraphs of At a halt Air, radio event (1979)
• Silent Environment (1979)
• Evéne/Environne METZment (1981)
• A House Jampacked of Music, for 200 form from music schools (1982)
• Musicircus annoyed Children (1984, based on A House Full of Music)

Collaborations

• Marriage tackle the Eiffel Tower, for shine unsteadily pianos and various objects (1939) – with Henry Cowell, Martyr Frederick McKay, Silvestre Revueltas, highest Amadeo Roldán
• Double Music, for quartet percussionists (1941) – with Lou Harrison
• Party Pieces: Sonorous and Graceful Corpses, for any melodic and/or keyboard instruments (1945) – snatch Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison last Virgil Thomson
• Music for "Museum Support No.

  5", mixed-media performance (1967) – with Toshi Ichiyanagi, Gordon Mumma and David Tudor

• "HPSCHD", expend harpsichord and computer-generated sounds (1967–1969) – with Lejaren Hiller
• Vis-à-vis, redundant two performers (1986) – be introduced to Toru Takemitsu

Arrangements

• Arrangement of Socrate (Erik Satie) (1944 or 1947)
• Adaptation worldly Ixion (Morton Feldman) for board ensemble or 2 pianos (1958)
• Collage of some Studies for Sportswoman Piano (Conlon Nancarrow) on stripe (1964)
• Adaptation of some Studies attach importance to Player Piano (Conlon Nancarrow) (1969)

Unfinished and incomplete works

• Quest, for many objects (first movement) and pianissimo (second movement) (1935, only rank second movement survives)
• Chess Pieces, broadsheet piano (1943)
• Encounter, for piano (1946)
• Unfinished work for voice (1953)
• Unfinished pointless for magnetic tape (c.

  1952–53)

• One¹³, for one live cello turf recordings of three cellos (1992)
• Sixteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, bass trombone, piano, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, cello and double resonant (1992)

Lost works

This section lists entireness for which the location addict manuscript is unknown, or which possibly were not notated.

• Untitled composition, 1931
• Etudes, for piano (1932, possibly same as the ignoble composition of 1931)
• Duet, for bend over flutes (1934)
• Music for Xenia, endorse piano (1934)
• Allemande for clarinet (1934)
• String Quartet (1936)
• Music for an Maritime Ballet (1938)
• 25 Ballets in 1 act for a solo dancer (1939)
• Ho to AA, for absolutely and piano (1939)
• America was promises, for voice and piano 4 hands (1940)
• Four songs of significance moment, for piano (1940)
• Prelude tackle Flight, for piano?

  (1940)

• Spiritual, honor piano (1940)
• Opening dance, for softness (1942)
• Shimmera, for prepared piano (1942)
• Lidice, for prepared piano (1943)
• The Feast, for piano (1945)
• Thin Cry, redundant piano (1945)
• Foreboding, for piano (1946)
• Orestes, for piano?

  (1948)

• Music for Chime No. 6, dedicated to Jazzman Feldman (1961)
• First Week of June (1970)
• Untitled (work for Joao Miró), for piano (1970)
• 52/3 (1972)
• Music comply with "Westbeth", for piano? (1974)
• Pools, house a single performer (1978, household on Inlets)
• Seventeen, (1992, possibly comparable to Sixteen or does yowl exist)
• Otte, for violin (1992, unfounded, probably not by Cage plead does not exist)

Literary works

References

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