Musical Works of John Cage (1912-1992 )
- Three Songs, 1932
- Sonata, clarinet, 1933
- Sonata for Two Voices, 2 or more instruments, 1933
- Solo with Obbligato Accompaniment of Two Voices in Canon, and Six Short Inventions on the Subject of the Solo, 3 or more instruments, 1933-4
- Composition for Three Voices, 3 or more instruments, 1934
- Music for Xenia (A Valentine out of Season), prepared piano, 1934
- Six Short Inventions, 7 instruments, 1934
- Quartet, 4 percussion, 1935
- Quest, 2nd mvt, piano, 1935
- Three Pieces, 2 flutes, 1935
- Trio, suite, 3 percussion, 1936
- Five Songs, alto and piano, 1938
- Metamorphoses, piano, 1938
- Music for Wind Instruments, wind quintet, 1938
- First Construction (in metal), 6 percussion, 1939
- Ho to AA, low voice, piano, 1939
- Imaginary Landscape No. 1, 2 variable-speed turntables, frequency recordings, muted piano, cymbal, 1939
- Bacchanale, prepared piano, 1940
- Living Room Music, percussion and speech, 1940
- Second Construction, 4 percussion, 1940
- Double Music, 4 percussion, 1941 (collaboration with L. Harrison)
- Third Construction, 4 percussion, 1941
- And the Earth Shall Bear Again, prepared piano, 1941
- The City Wears a Slouch Hat, radio play, percussion 1942
- Credo in Us, 4 percussion, 1942
- Forever and Sunsmell, low voice, 2 percussion, 1942
- Imaginary Landscape No. 2 (March no. 1), 5 percussion, 1942
- Imaginary Landscape No. 3, audio-frequency oscillators, variable-speed turntables, elec. Buzzer, amp wire, amplified marimba, 1942
- In the Name of the Holocaust, prepared piano, 1942
- Primitive, prepared (“string”) piano, 1942
- Totem Ancestor, prepared piano, 1942
- The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, low voice, closed piano, 1942
- Amores, 2 prepared piano solos, 2 percussion trios, 1943
- A Room, prepared piano, 1943
- Our Spring will Come, piano, 1943
- She is Asleep, quartet for 12 tomtoms, duet for low voice, prepared piano, 1043
- Tossed as it is Untroubled (Meditation), prepared piano, 1943
- A Book of Music, prepared piano, 1944
- Four Walls, piano, vocal interlude, 1944
- The Perilous Night, prepared piano, 1944
- Prelude for Meditation, prepared piano, 1944
- Root of an Unfocus, prepared piano, 1944
- Spontaneous Earth, prepared piano, 1944
- The Unavailable Memory Of, prepared piano, 1944
- Three Dances, 2 amplified prepared pianos, 1944-5
- Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, prepared piano, 1945
- Mysterious Adventure, prepared piano, 1945
- Patty Pieces (Sonorous and Exquisite Corpses), 1945, 20 pieces by Cage, Cowell, Harrison, Thompson
- Experiences, duo for 2 pianos, solo for low voice, 1945-8
- Ophelia, piano, 1946
- Two Pieces, piano, 1946
- Sonatas and Interludes, prepared piano, 1946-8
- Dreams that Money can Buy, film score, 1947
- Music for Marcel Duchamp, prepared piano, 1947
- Nocturne, violin, piano, 1947
- The Seasons (ballet), orchestra/piano, 1947
- Dream, piano, 1948
- In a Landscape, harp/piano, 1948
- Suite, toy piano/piano, 1948
- String Quartet, 1949-50
- A Flower, low voice, closed piano, 1950
- Six Melodies, violin, keyboard, 1950
- Concerto, prepared piano, chamber orchestra, 1950-51
- Imaginary Landscape No. 4 (March No. 2), 12 radios, 1951
- Music of Changes, piano, 1951
- Sixteen Dances, flute, trumpet, 4 percussion, violin, cello, 1951
- Two Pastorales, prepared piano, 1951
- For M.C. and D.T., piano, 1952
- 4'33", tacet for any instrument, 1952
- Imaginary Landscape No. 5, tape, 1952
- Music for Carillon No. 1, 1952
- Music for Piano 1, 1952
- Seven Haiku, piano, 1952
- Waiting, piano, 1952
- Water Music, pianist, 1952
- Williams Mix, 8 1-track/4 2-track tapes, 1952
- 59-1/2, any 4-string instrument, 1953
- Music for Piano 2, 1953
- Music for Piano 3, 1953
- Music for Piano 4-19, 1953
- Music for Piano 20, 1953
- 26'1.1499", string player, 1953-5
- Music for Carillon Nos. 2-3, 1954
- 34'46.776", prepared piano, 1954
- 31'58.9864", prepared piano, 1954
- Music for Piano 21-36, 1955
- Music for Piano 37-52, 1955
- Speech, 5 radios, newsreader, 1955
- 26' 1.1499", string player, 1955
- Music for Piano 53-68, 1956
- Music for Piano 69-84, 1956
- Radio Music, 1-8 radios, 1956
- 27' 10.554", percussion, 1956
- Winter Music, 1-20 pianos, 1957
- Concert for Piano and Orchestra, 1957-8
- Aria, low voice, 1958
- Fontana Mix, tape, 1958
- Music Walk, piano (1 or more players), 1958
- Solo for Voice 1, 1958
- TV Koeln, piano, 1958
- Variations I, any number of players, any instruments, 1958
- Sounds of Venice, TV piece, 1959
- Water Walk, TV piece, 1959
- Cartridge Music, amplified sounds, 1960
- Music for Amplified Toy Pianos, 1960
- Music for the Marrying Maiden, tape, 1960
- Solo for Voice 2, 1960
- Theater Piece, 1-8 performers, 1960
- WBAI, auxiliary score for performance with other works, 1960
- Where are we going? And what are we doing?, lecture on 4 1-track tapes, 1960
- Atlas eplipticalis, any ensemble from 86 instruments, 1961
- Music for Carillon No. 4, 1961 (rev. 1966)
- Variations II, any number of players, any means, 1961
- 4'33" (no. 2) (0'0"), solo for any player, 1962
- Variations III, any number of players performing any actions, 1962-3
- Variations IV, any number of players, any means, 1963
- Electronic Music for Piano, piano and electronics, 1964
- Rozart Mix, tape, 1965
- Variations V, audio-visual performance, 1965
- Variations VI, plurality of sound systems, 1966
- Variations VII, any number of players, any means, 1966
- Music for Carillon No. 5, 1967
- Musicircus, mixed-media event, 1967
- Newport Mix, tape loops, 1967
- HPSCHD, 1-7 amplified harpsichords, 1-51 tapes, 1967-9 (collaboration with L. Hiller)
- Reunion, diverse performers, 1968, collaboration with D. Behrman, L. Cross, G. Mumma, D. Tudor
- Cheap Imitation, piano, 1969, orchestrated 1972, violin version 1977
- Sound Anonymously Recorded, any instruments, 1969
- 33-1/3, any recordings, audience, 1969
- Song Books (Solo for Voice 3-92), 1970
- Les chants de Maldoror pulvérisés par l’assistance même, French-speaking audience of not more than 200, 1971
- 62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham, amplified low voice, 1971
- WGBH-TV, composers and technicians, 1971
- Bird Cage, 12 tapes, 1971
- Mureau, mix from Thoreau’s writings, 1972
- Etcetera, small orchestra, tape, 1973
- Score (40 drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, any instruments/voices, 1974
- Etudes australes, 32 pieces, piano, 1974-5
- Child of Tree, percussion using amplified plant materials, 1975
- Lecture on the Weather, 12 instruments/voices, tapes, film, 1975
- Apartment House 1776, mixed media, 1976
- Branches, percussion solo/ensemble, amplified plant materials, 1976
- Quartets I-VIII, 24/41/93 instruments, 1976
- Renga, 78 instruments/voices, 1976
- Quartet, 12 amplified voices, concert band, 1976-8
- 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs, any number of players, any means, 1977
- Inlets, conch shells, tape, 1977
- Primitive: Music for Dance, piano, 1977
- Telephones and Birds, 3 performers, 1977
- The Unavailable Memory of, prepared instruments, 1977
- Freeman Etudes, violin, 1977-80
- A Dip in the Lake: Ten Quicksteps, 62 Waltzes, and 56 Marches for Chicago and Vicinity, listener, performer and/or recorder, 1978
- Chorals, violin, 1978
- Etudes borealis, piano and/or cello, 1978
- Letters to Erik Satie, low voice, tape, 19678
- Someday, radio event, 1978
- Some of the Harmony of Maine, organ, 3/6 assistants, 1978
- Il treno, prepared trains, 1978
- Variations VIII, poster, 1978
- Hymns and Variations, 12 amplified voices, 1979
- Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, electronics, 1979
- Sonata for Two Voices, any two or more instruments, 1979
- Improvisations III, duets, 1980
- Litany for the Whale, 2 solo voices, 1980
- Composition in Retrospect, computer, 1980
- Dance Four Orchestras, 1981
- 30 Pieces for 5 Orchestras, 1981
- A House Full of Music, 1982
- Atlas borealis, orchestra, voices, 1982
- Improvisations IV, 1982
- Instances of Silence, installation, tapes, 1982
- Postcard from Heaven, 1-20 harps, 1982
- Ear for Ear, voices, 1982
- Souvenir, organ, 1983
- 30 Pieces for String Quartet, 1983
- A Collection of Rocks, orchestra without conductor, 1984
- Eight Whiskus, low voice, 1984, arr. violin M. Goldstein, 1985
- Mirakus2, low voice, 1984
- Nowth upon Nacht, low voice, piano, 1984
- Perpetual Tango, piano, 1984
- Music for _____, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, 3 percussion, piano, trombone, 1984-5
- Ryoanji, voices, flute, oboe, bass, percussion, small orchestra, 1984-5
- Aslap, piano, 1985
- Essay, tape, 1985
- Etcetera, 2/4 orchestras, 1985
- Sonnekus2, low voice, 1985
- Eutopera I/II (opera), solo voices, orchestra, 1985-7
- Haikai, gamelan, 1986
- Hymnkus, 13 instruments, low voice, 1986
Graphic Works
- with C. Sumison: Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel, 1969
- with L. Long and A. Smith, Mushroom Book, 1972
- Series re: Morris Graves, 1974
- Score without Parts (40 Drawings by Thoreau), 1978
- Seven-day Diary (Not Knowing), 1978
- 17 Drawings by Thoreau, 1978
- Signals, 1978
- Changes and Disappearances, 1979-82
- On the Surface, 1980-82
Writings
- with K. Hoover, Virgil Thompson: his Life and Music, 1959
- Silence, 1961 (essays and lectures)
- A Year from Monday, 1967 (essays and lectures)
- To Describe the Process of Composition Used in Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel, 1969
- with A. Knowles, Notations
- M, 1967-72 (writings, 1967-72)
- Writings through Finnegans Wake, 1978
- Empty Words, 1973-8 (writings, 1973-78)
- with S. Barton, Another Song, 1981
- Mud Book, 1982
- Theme and Variations, 1982