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Title Music for Piano No. 4 (for David Tudor)
Maker Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
Date December 1960
Type score
Location Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 10, folder 7

In Music for Piano No. 4, all sound events must be sustained with silences interspersed. Aside from the cryptic suggestion that “no attack should be made,” the performance otherwise remains indeterminate.

Music for Piano No. 4 by Toshi Ichiyanagi © 1963 by C.F. Peters Corporation, New York. Permission by C.F. Peters Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Ichiyanagi, Toshi. Music for Piano No. 4 (for David Tudor), December 1960. Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 10, folder 7. 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/306/.

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