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Title Music for Piano No. 5 (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 8

As a foil to Ichiyanagi’s Music for Piano No. 4, in his Music for Piano No. 5, all events must be punctual “attacks.” This timeline-based score uses proportional rhythms; each line represents one minute, and the numbers correspond to precise seconds on a stopwatch. Any number of players can be involved, but strict numbers of attacks must be made at specific times.

Music for Piano No. 5 by Toshi Ichiyanagi © 1960 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. 5 (for David Tudor), December 1960. Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 10, folder 8. 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/308/.

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