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Title “Situations” for 3 Pianos
Maker Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
Date 1960
Type score
Location Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 32

This is the first of a number of chance compositions Benjamin Patterson was invited to write for openings at Haro Lauhus’s gallery in Cologne. This score for three pianos achieves chance procedures through shuffled cards that feature unspecified attacks of varied durations, amounts, and qualities (including clusters, varied spacings, and transpositions).

© The Estate of Benjamin Patterson.

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Patterson, Benjamin. “Situations” for 3 Pianos, 1960. Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 32. In The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music, Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/212/.

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