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Complete John Cage Edition 33: 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 (mode144)

by John Cage

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Harmony I: Cookfield - Lyon 01:33
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Harmony II: Mansfield - Billings 01:25
3.
Harmony III: Funeral Anthem - Billings 02:51
4.
Harmony IV: Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates - French 12:00
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5.
Harmony V: The Lord Descended - Billings 13:19
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Harmony VI: Psalm 17 - Lyon 01:01
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Harmony VII: Larr's Lane - Law 00:59
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Harmony VIII: Tyndale - Law 00:46
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Harmony IX: Dover - Law 00:44
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Harmony X: Is There Not An Appointed Time? - Lyon 06:35
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Harmony XI: Wheeler's Point - Billings 01:04
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Harmony XII: Littleton - Law 00:51
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Harmony XIII: Worchester - Billings 01:49
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Harmony XIV: Brunswick - Lyon 00:41
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Harmony XV: Bellingham - Billings 01:21
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Harmony XVI: Detroit - Law 00:33
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Harmony XVII: Association - French 00:57
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Harmony XVIII: Old North - Billings 02:11
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Harmony XIX: New York - Law 04:40
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Harmony XX: O Give Thanks - Lyon 05:15
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Harmony XXI: Heath - Billings 01:45
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Harmony XXII: Wisdom - French 03:10
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Harmony XXIII: St. Helens - Billings 01:05
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Harmony XXIV: St. Thomas - Billings 02:05
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Harmony XXV: Rapture - Belcher 01:37
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Harmony XXVI: Judea - Billings 01:14
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Harmony XXVII: Reflection - Belcher 01:15
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Harmony XXVIII: Greenwich - Law 05:39
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Harmony XXIX: Trumpet - Law 00:57
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Harmony XXX: Tempest - Law 01:36
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Harmony XXXI: New Windsor- Law 00:57
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Harmony XXXII: Litchfield - Law 00:37
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Harmony XXXIII: Newburn - Billings 00:36
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Harmony XXXIV: St. Peters - Lyon 00:32
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Harmony XXXV: Framingham - Billings 03:37
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Harmony XXXVI: 57th Psalm Tune - Lyon 00:43
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Harmony XXXVII: Coelestis - French 01:34
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Harmony XXXVIII: The Lord Is Ris'n - Billings 04:49
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Harmony XXXIX: Weymouth - Billings 03:03
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Harmony XL: The New 50th Psalm Tune - Lyon 00:58
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Harmony XLI: Standish Tune - Lyon 00:40
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Harmony XLII: Rapture - Belcher 01:41
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Harmony XLIII: Castle St. - Law 01:02
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Harmony XLIV: Bloomfield - Law 01:05
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Cheap Imitation - I. 06:07
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Cheap Imitation - II. 09:13
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Cheap Imitation - III. 16:32

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THE ARDITTI QUARTET
Irvine Arditti, violin
Graeme Jennings, violin
Dov Scheindlin, viola
Rohan de Saram, cello
First recording


Cheap Imitation (1977) (31:52)
Irvine Arditti, violin solo


Irvine Arditti completes his complete traversal of Cage's works for solo violin with Cheap Imitation in this set.

In 1969, John Cage transcribed a two piano version of Erik Satie's 1918 music drama Socrate to accompany Merce Cunningham's choreography Second Hand. At the last minute, the French firm that held the copyright to Satie's score refused to allow the performance. With an ingenious rewriting, Cage retained the rhythmical architecture of the musical lines, but replaced each note with a new tonal value, creating a melodically original work with an identical rhythmic structure.

The 44 Harmonies are based on early American music, are, to quote Cage: "for the most part both quartets and solos, subtractions of different sorts from anthems and congregational music written by composers who were at least twenty years old at the time of the American Revolution" (specifically: Supply Belcher, William Billings, Jacob French, Andrew Law, and James Lyon). These Harmonies are derived from Cage's Apartment House 1776.

In 1998, Irvine Arditti, along with pianist Stephen Drury, were in the studio to continue recording Cage's complete works for violin and piano. On the schedule was Roger Zahab's realization of 13 of the Harmonies from Apartment House 1776. For various reasons, that recording was not made. However, Arditti became inspired.

Arditti wrote: "When I looked at the original score of Harmonies, I saw that the open harmonies of this almost medieval looking score lent itself perfectly to the homogenous sound of a string quartet." Arditti continued to arrange all 44 Harmonies for string quartet with the approval of Cage's publisher, C.F. Peters. The complete set receive their first recording here.

Liner notes are by Cage scholar James Pritchett with an additional essay by Irvine Arditti.

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released January 1, 2005

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