{"id":1681,"date":"2022-08-25T16:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2022-12-18T19:59:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T23:59:55","slug":"publication-cages-bacchanale-for-2-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/publication-cages-bacchanale-for-2-guitars\/","title":{"rendered":"PUBLICATION \u2013 Cage’s Bacchanale for 2 Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My arrangement of John Cage’s prepared piano work Bacchanale<\/em> for 2 prepared guitars is now available through Edition Peters Group<\/span><\/a> !!!<\/p>\n

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Written in 1940, Bacchanale<\/em> is the earliest of John Cage’s prepared piano works, which was originally written for choreographer and fellow faculty member at Cornish College<\/span>, Syvilla Fort, who was one of the earliest black choreographers of modern dance in the US.<\/div>\n
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From John. Cage. Guitar.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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“A rhythmically riotous piece, polyrhythms are created through the music\u2019s consistently adjusting groupings and meters. Bacchanale<\/em> was first conceived by Cage as a dance work for percussion ensemble by fellow Cornish College faculty choreographer Syvilla Fort, who asked for a composition of African inspiration. The space of the performance was not large enough to allow for the battery of percussion instruments, so Cage decided to fix weather stripping, bolts, screws and nuts into the strings of the piano to create a percussion ensemble, and the first work for prepared piano was born. Its large form being Fast-Slow-Fast, the outside sections are also broken into smaller sections of various levels of Fast-Faster-Fast. The middle section is marked Very Slow-Slow-Slower and has only one dynamic triple piano (ppp). The preparation of the guitars consisted of paper woven through strings 6-2, and an alligator clip on the first string with two washers around it. It is as close to rock and roll as one can get in 1940 or with classical guitars.”<\/p>\n

It is the closing track of John. Cage. Guitar, Recorded with Adam Levin on Stone Records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The score comes with preparation instructions and photos.<\/div>\n
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Score from Edition Peters: HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Signed score directly from Aaron via Bandcamp: HERE<\/a><\/p>\n

Hear it on John. Cage. Guitar. : SPOTIFY <\/a><\/p>\n

Here it live on November 5 at Pomona College<\/a> in Claremont, California with Aaron Larget-Caplan and Buzz Gravelle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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