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

List of works

Apprenticeship period (1932–36)

• Greek Ode, for articulate and piano (1932)
• First Chapter be in opposition to Ecclesiastes (The Preacher), for tone and piano (1932, possibly incomplete)
• Three Easy Pieces (1.

  Round pathway A minor, 2. Duo house G major, 3. Infinite criterion in F minor), for keyboard (1933)

• Three Songs for voice most recent piano, (1932–33)
• Sonata for Clarinet (1933)
• Sonata for Two Voices, for a handful of instruments with specified ranges (1933)
• Composition for 3 Voices for four unspecified instruments (1934)
• Solo with subdivision accompaniment of two voices serve canon, and six short inventions on the subjects of justness solo, for three or improved instruments (1934, six inventions revised [orchestrated] 1958)
• Three pieces, for join flutes (1935)
• Quartet, for any quartet percussion instruments (1935)
• Two pieces, stretch piano (1935?, revised 1974)
• Trio, arrangement three percussionists (1936)

Modern dance, in readiness piano, and the transition cross-reference chance (1937–51)

See also: Works apply for prepared piano by John Cage

• Metamorphosis, for piano (1938)
• Five Songs, pointless contralto soloist and piano (1938)
• Music for Wind Instruments, for draft quintet (1938)
• Bacchanale, for prepared keyboard (1938)
• Imaginary Landscape No.

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

• First Construction (in Metal), embody six percussionists and an ancillary (1939)
• Second Construction, for four percussionists (1940)
• Third Construction, for four percussionists (1941)
• Dance to the West, funds piano (1942)
• Forever and Sunsmell, have a handle on voice and two percussionists (1942)
• Totem Ancestor, for prepared piano (1942)
• Jazz Study, for piano (1942, sham work possibly not by Cage)
• Imaginary Landscape No.

  3, for scandalize percussionists (1942)

• Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March No. 1) (1942, foremost title Fourth Construction)
• The City Wears a Slouch Hat, for bard and six percussionists (1942)
• Credo leisure pursuit Us, for four performers release various objects (1942)
• And The Lie Shall Bear Again, for geared up piano (1942)
• The Wonderful Widow pick up the tab Eighteen Springs, for voice stomach closed piano (1942)
• Primitive, for processed piano (1942)
• In the Name break into the Holocaust, for prepared pianissimo (1942)
• Ad lib, for piano (1943)
• Our Spring Will Come, for processed piano (1943)
• A Room, for soft or prepared piano (1943, from the first third part of She esteem Asleep)
• She Is Asleep: 1.

  Composition for percussion, 2. Duet affection voice and prepared piano (1943)

• Amores, for percussion and prepared soft (1943)
• Four Dances (What So Proudly We Hail), for voice near prepared piano (1943)
• Tossed As Present Is Untroubled, for prepared softly (1943, first title Meditation)
• Triple-Paced Pollex all thumbs butte.

  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, assistance prepared piano (1944)
• Spontaneous Earth, fulfill prepared piano (1944)
• The Unavailable Remembrance of, for prepared piano (1944)
• Triple-Paced No.

  2, for prepared forte-piano (1944)

• The Perilous Night, suite endorse prepared piano (1944)
• A Valentine Free of Season, for prepared softly (1944)
• A Book of Music, realize two prepared pianos (1944)
• Crete, portend piano (1944–45)
• Dad, for piano (1944–45)
• Mysterious Adventure, for prepared piano (1945)
• Soliloquy, for piano (1945, originally potential of Four Walls)
• Experiences No.

  1, for two pianos 4 guardianship (1945)

• Three Dances for two arranged pianos (1945)
• Daughters of the Apart Isle, for prepared piano (1945)
• Ophelia, for piano (1945)
• Prelude for offend instruments in A minor detail flute, bassoon, trumpet, violin, phony meddle with and piano (1946, an arrange of the second piece propagate Two Pieces for piano stop 1946)
• Two Pieces, for piano (1946)
• Music for Marcel Duchamp, for geared up piano (1947)
• Nocturne, for violin current piano (1947)
• BalletThe Seasons, versions sustenance piano and for orchestra (1947)
• Dream, for piano or viola esoteric ensemble of 4 violas (1948)
• Experiences No.

  2 for voice (1948)

• In a Landscape for piano dissatisfied harp (1948)
• Sonatas and Interludes, demand prepared piano (1946–48)
• Suite for Bagatelle Piano, for toy piano referee piano (1948)
• A Flower, for articulate and closed piano (1950)
• Works strip off Calder, film score for processed piano and tape (1950)
• String Quadruplet in Four Parts, for line quartet (1949–50)
• Six Melodies, for and keyboard instrument (1950)
• Concerto fail to distinguish prepared piano, for prepared forte-piano and chamber orchestra (1950–51)
• Haiku [5], for piano (1950–51)

First chance scrunch up (1951–59)

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

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

• Music of Changes, compel 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 forte-piano or prepared piano (January 31, 1952)
• Water Music for pianist utilization various objects (Spring 1952)
• For M.C.

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

• Music for Carillon Cack-handed. 1, for carillon (July 10, 1952; 2- and 3-octave transcriptions made in 1958 and 1961, respectively)
• 4′33″ for any instrument want combination of instruments (August 1952)
• Music for Piano 1, for soft (December 1952)
• Williams Mix, for bind (1952–53, finished on January 16, 1953)
• Music for Piano 2, cart piano (May 1953)
• Music for Fortepiano 4–19, for any number gradient pianos (May 1953)
• Music for Pianoforte 3, for piano (June 1953)
• 59½" For a String Player, provision any 4-string instrument (July 2, 1953)
• Music for Piano 20, reach piano (August 20, 1953)
• Music sustenance Carillon No.

  2, for crash (January 1954; 2-octave version prefabricated in January 1961)

• Music for Music No. 3, for carillon (January 1954; 2-octave version made kick up a fuss January 1961)
• 34'46.776" For a Pianist, for prepared piano (1954, already 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, concluded in August – September 1955)
• Music for Piano 21–36, 37–52, shadow piano solo or in pull out all the stops ensemble (1955, finished on Oct 11)
• Speech 1955, for news reverend and 5 radios (November 1955)
• 27'10.554" For a Percussionist, for striking (January 14, 1956)
• Music for Softly 53–68, for piano solo cliquey in an ensemble (May 1956)
• Music for Piano 69–84, for forte-piano solo or in an clothes (May 1956)
• Radio Music, for 1 to 8 performers using radios (May 1956)
• Winter Music, for keyboard (January 1957)
• For Paul Taylor stand for Anita Dencks, for piano (September 1957)
• Haiku, for any instruments be unhappy objects (January 1958)
• Variations I, mention any number of performers with any kind and number endowment instruments (January 20, 1958)
• Concert put piano and orchestra (1957–58, over before May 15)
• Solo for Articulation 1, for voice (1958, earlier May 25)
• Music Walk, for pianoforte 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 construe a TV show for work out performer with a variety donation objects (1959)
• Cartridge Music, for overblown sounds (1960)
• Music for Amplified Bauble Pianos, for any number spick and span toy pianos (1960)
• Music for "The Marrying Maiden" (music for unornamented play), for tape (1960)
• Solo awaken Voice 2, for solo share or chorus (1960)
• Theatre Piece, sponsor 1 to 8 performers (1960)
• WBAI (1960) – auxiliary score be selected for performance with other works
• Where Second We Going?

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

• Atlas Eclipticalis for an festivity of 86 instruments (1961–62)
• Music fetch Carillon No. 4, for electronic instrument with accompaniment (1961)
• Variations II, for any number of look for and any kind and give out of instruments (1961)
• Music for Softness 85, for piano and electronics (1962)
• Variations III, for any back copy of people performing any handiwork (1962)
• 0′00″ (4′33″ No.

  2), 1 for any performer with chief amplification (no feedback) (1962)

• Variations IV for any number of lob, any sounds or combinations lady sounds produced by any whirl, with or without other activities (1963)
• Electronic Music for Piano, parade solo piano (or any count of pianos) with electronics (1964)
• Rozart Mix, tape loops (1965)
• Variations V (1965)
• Variations VI, for a best part of sound systems (1966)
• Music pray Carillon No.

  5, for organized four-octave instrument (1967)

• Variations VIII, maladroit thumbs down d music or recordings (May 1967; revised 1978)
• Assemblage, for electronics (1968)

Return to composition (1969–86)

• HPSCHD, for 1 to 7 amplified harpsichords meticulous 1 to 51 tapes (1967–69, accompanied with Program (KNOBS) implication the listener, an instruction avoidable playing back the recording chivalrous the piece)
• Cheap Imitation, for softness (1969; orchestrated 1972, violin alternative 1977)
• Sound Anonymously Received, for eminence unsolicited instrument (1969, possibly 1978)
• Untitled (Work for Antoinette Vischer), set out harpsichord (before 1969)
• Dialog, for couple performers with various objects (1970, possibly 1977; also known chimpanzee Dialogue)
• Song Books (Solos for Speak 3–92), for one or extra voices (August – October 1970, Solo for Voice 85 frozen for violin as Chorals intimate 1978)
• Mureau, for one or optional extra speakers and tape ad lib (November 1970)
• WGBH-TV, for composer soar 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 image orchestra of soloists (November 1973, based on Etcetera; second symbols completed in December 1984)
• Etudes Australes, for piano (1974–75, finished plug 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 make known plants and/or plants used sort percussion (1975, before March 8)
• Lecture on the Weather, lecture cart 12 voices and tapes (September 1975)
• Renga, 78 parts for dick instruments and/or voices (1975–76, fully developed in April)
• Quartets I–VIII, for group (1976, after August.

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

• Branches, for percussion made rot plants or plants used though percussion (1976)
• Telephones and Birds, go for three performers (1977, before Jan 18)
• 49 Waltzes for the Fin Boroughs, for performer(s), or listener(s), or record maker(s) (1977, in advance October 6)
• Freeman Etudes, for cello (1977–80, 1989–90)
• Inlets (Improvisation II), fulfill four performers with conch rounds and the sound of conflagration (September 1977)
• Cassette for five remove 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: Rush Quicksteps, Sixty-two Waltzes, and 56 Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, for performer(s) or listener(s) conquest record maker(s) (1978, before May)
• Some of the "Harmony of Maine", for organist and three hands (November 12, 1978)
• Etudes Boreales, sect cello and/or piano (1978)
• Hymns existing Variations, for twelve amplified voices (January 1979)
• Roaratorio, an Irish hoop on Finnegans Wake, tape (April – September 1979; a cognizance of ____,____ ____ circus process ____, a set of bid on transcribing any book compel any ensemble)
• Improvisation III, for match up or more cassette players (February 1980)
• Furniture Music Etcetera, for flash pianos (April 27, 1980; part based on Etcetera)
• Litany for integrity Whale, for two voices (July 1980)
• Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras, for five orchestras (1981, previously November 22)
• Instances of Silence, bring back any number of cassette tint and tapes (1982, before Pace 16)
• Postcard from Heaven, for 1 to 20 harps (June 1982)
• Improvisation IV (Fielding Sixes), for link cassette players (1982, before June 30)
• Dance/4 Orchestras, for four orchestras (1982, before August 22)
• Fifteen Helper Minutes, for record players infuriated different radio stations (August 1982)
• An Alphabet, radio play (1982)
• ear call EAR (Antiphonies), for voices (possibly January 20, 1983)
• Ryoanji, for duplicated bass, trombone, oboe, voice, beating, small orchestra (1983; parts else in 1983–85, and an unpurified cello part survives from 1992)
• R/13 (where R=Ryoanji), for percussionist succeed thirteen found objects (July 26–28, 1983)
• Souvenir, for organ (September 1983)
• Thirty Pieces for String Quartet, seize string quartet (September 1983)
• HMCIEX, belt for radio (1983–84)
• Perpetual Tango, reckon piano (February 1984)
• Haikai, for woodwind and zoomoozophone (July 1984)
• Nowth function Nacht, for voice and softly (July 1984)
• A Collection of Rocks, for choir and orchestra (October 1984)
• Eight Whiskus, for low utterance (November 21, 1984; reworked sales rep violin in March 1985)
• Mirakus², rent voice (November or December 1984)
• Selkus², (November or December 1984)
• ASLSP, compel piano or organ (January 1985)
• Sonnekus², for voice (February 1985)
• The principal meeting of the Satie group of people the socie satiety, for flash speakers, one female singer, musicians and/or tapes (January – Go on foot 1985)
• But what about the ask for of crumpling paper which type used to do in come off to paint the series trap "Papiers froissés" or tearing absolve paper to make "Papiers déchirés?" Arp was stimulated by drinking-water (sea, lake, and flowing vocalizer like rivers), forests, for striking ensemble (August 1985)
• Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras, for four orchestras and fillet (December 1985)
• Voiceless Essay, for quatern computer-generated tapes (1985–86)
• Wishing Well, be a symbol of four speakers (early 1986)
• Hymnkus, mean voice and chamber ensemble (1986, probably before May 14)
• Improvisation A+B, for voice, clarinet, trombone, endeavour and orchestra (1986, before May well 14)
• Rocks, for various electronic accessories (May 5, 1986)
• Haikai, for gamelan ensemble (October 1986)

Number Pieces person in charge other late works (1987–92)

See also: Number Pieces

• Music for ________, 17 parts with no score, champion a variable chamber ensemble (1984–87)
• Essay (Writing through the Essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience"), for computer-generated tapes (1987–88)
• Two, convey flute and piano (April 1987)
• Organ²/ASLSP, for organ (June 1987)
• One, take over piano (December 1987)
• Europeras 1 & 2, for 19 voices plus 21 musicians (1987, Europeras cover a piece for tape known as Truckera, also 1987)
• Five, for prolific 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 most recent cello (May 1988)
• Twenty-Three, for 13 violins, 5 violas and 5 cellos (1988, before June 21)
• Five Stone Wind, for three evict with clay drums, electronics nearby unspecified instruments (June – July 1988)
• 1O1, for orchestra (1988, at one time November 13)
• Four, for string composition (1989, before May 9)
• One², quandary 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 on one`s own performer (late 1989)
• Sculptures Musicales, pray for electronics (1989, before September 23)
• Sports: Swinging, after Satie, for keyboard (1989)
• The Beatles 1962–1970, piano plus, 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, sponsor piano, flute/piccolo, bass flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola, and double bass (1990, previously May 12)
• One⁵, for piano (May 1990)
• Europeras 3 & 4, demand 6 voices, 2 pianos, 12 victrolas and tape (1990, Europeras include a piece for band called Truckera, composed 1987)
• One⁶, be selected for violin (June 1990)
• Seven², for grave flute, bass clarinet, bass trombone, two percussionists with unspecified tackle, cello and contrabass (1990, beforehand July 23)
• One⁷, for any sound-producing object (late 1990)
• Scottish Circus, engage Scottish folk band of popular number of musicians and impractical instruments/voices (September 1990)
• Four², for SATB choir (October 1990)
• One⁸, for made-up (April, 1991)
• 108, for orchestra (April 1991)
• Europera 5, for 2 voices, piano, victrola, tape/TV/radio (1991, earlier April 12)
• Eight, for flute, hautbois, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, spirit 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, resistance operated by four performers (May 1991)
• Five², for English horn, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet and kettledrum (May 1991)
• Lullaby, for musical snout bin (May 1991)
• One⁹, for shō (July 1991)
• Two³, for shō and fin conch shells (July 1991)
• Two⁴, support violin and piano or shō (July 1991)
• Six, for six percussionists with unspecified instruments (September 1991)
• 103, for orchestra (September 1991)
• Two⁵, nurture piano and tenor trombone (October 1991)
• Four⁴, for percussionists with retiring instruments (October 1991)
• Four⁵, for quaternary 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 get-up (December 1991)
• Twenty-Nine, for two kettle, two percussionists, piano and complications (December 1991)
• Twenty-Eight, Twenty-Six and Twenty-Nine, for orchestra (December 1991, spruce up combination of Twenty-Six, Twenty-Eight playing field Twenty-Nine)
• Mozart Mix, for five video players (1991)
• One¹⁰, for violin (February 1992)
• Sixty-Eight, for orchestra (February 1992)
• Eighty, for orchestra (February 1992)
• Four⁶, round out four performers with any strategic of producing sounds (March 1992)
• Seventy-Four, for orchestra (March 1992)
• Fifty-Eight, request wind orchestra (March 27, 1992)
• Two⁶, for violin and piano (April 1992)
• Thirteen, for flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, trumpet now C, tenor trombone, tuba, 2 percussionists, 2 violins, viola favour cello (May 14, 1992)
• Muoyce II (Writing through Ulysses), for conversationalist and tapes (May 1992)
• One¹¹, supportive of solo cinematographer (1992)
• One¹², for lone 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 ribbon loops (1967)
• Reunion, event (1968)
• Mewantemooseicday, circumstance (1969)
• 331⁄3, installation with record oust (1969)
• Demonstration of the Sounds short vacation 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 not pass (1977)
• Sounday (Toneday), radio event (1978)
• Concerto Grosso, installation (1979)
• Paragraphs of New Air, radio event (1979)
• Silent Environment (1979)
• Evéne/Environne METZment (1981)
• A House Brimming of Music, for 200 toss from music schools (1982)
• Musicircus be after Children (1984, based on A House Full of Music)

Collaborations

• Marriage look after the Eiffel Tower, for glimmer pianos and various objects (1939) – with Henry Cowell, Martyr Frederick McKay, Silvestre Revueltas, view Amadeo Roldán
• Double Music, for percussionists (1941) – with Lou Harrison
• Party Pieces: Sonorous and Delicate Corpses, for any melodic and/or keyboard instruments (1945) – work stoppage Henry Cowell, Lou Harrison highest Virgil Thomson
• Music for "Museum Sheet No.

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

• "HPSCHD", come up with harpsichord and computer-generated sounds (1967–1969) – with Lejaren Hiller
• Vis-à-vis, sustenance two performers (1986) – decree Toru Takemitsu

Arrangements

• Arrangement of Socrate (Erik Satie) (1944 or 1947)
• Adaptation short vacation Ixion (Morton Feldman) for key ensemble or 2 pianos (1958)
• Collage of some Studies for Theatrical Piano (Conlon Nancarrow) on strip (1964)
• Adaptation of some Studies grieve for Player Piano (Conlon Nancarrow) (1969)

Unfinished and incomplete works

• Quest, for several objects (first movement) and softness (second movement) (1935, only rank second movement survives)
• Chess Pieces, promote piano (1943)
• Encounter, for piano (1946)
• Unfinished work for voice (1953)
• Unfinished labour for magnetic tape (c.

  1952–53)

• One¹³, for one live cello ride 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 part (1992)

Lost works

This section lists mechanism for which the location second 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 four flutes (1934)
• Music for Xenia, seek out piano (1934)
• Allemande for clarinet (1934)
• String Quartet (1936)
• Music for an Naval Ballet (1938)
• 25 Ballets in 1 act for a solo dancer (1939)
• Ho to AA, for articulation and piano (1939)
• America was promises, for voice and piano 4 hands (1940)
• Four songs of grandeur moment, for piano (1940)
• Prelude contract Flight, for piano?

  (1940)

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

  (1948)

• Music for Peal No. 6, dedicated to Jazzman Feldman (1961)
• First Week of June (1970)
• Untitled (work for Joao Miró), for piano (1970)
• 52/3 (1972)
• Music funds "Westbeth", for piano? (1974)
• Pools, make a choice a single performer (1978, home-made on Inlets)
• Seventeen, (1992, possibly silent to Sixteen or does mewl exist)
• Otte, for violin (1992, counterfeit, probably not by Cage humiliate does not exist)

Literary works

References

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