Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano

By John Cage

The Sonatas and Interludes are Cage's masterwork for prepared piano. It was Cage's first composition inspired by Hindu philosophy, composed in a period of reading the works of the Indian art historian and critic Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. In these compositions, Cage expresses his interpretation of the permanent emotions of Indian tradion: The Heroic, the Erotic, the Wondrous, the Comic, Sorrow, Fear, Anger, the Odious (the four dark moods) and their common tendency toward tranquility.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030074157X
• ISBN13: 9790300741574
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Alfred Music
• Length: 999 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 9.2" x 11.9"