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Solo prepared piano - Difficulty: medium SKU: PE.EP6755 (1946-48). Composed by John Cage. Piano (Solo). Edition Peters. 20th Century. Collection. With table of preparations (does not include words to the songs). Composed 1946-8. 40 pages. Duration 01:10:00. Edition Peters #98-EP6755. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6755). ISBN 9790300741574. 9x12 inches. English.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.