Tags: Classical Music Composition.
A Flower is a song for voice and closed piano by John Cage. It was composed in 1950 for a choreography by Louise Lippold wife of sculptor Richard Lippold. There is no text; the singer vocalises a small number of phonemes such as uh wah etc. without vibrato. Instructions given in the score include for some passages like a pigeon and like a wild duck. The entire vocal line is constructed of just four pitches except for a single bar near the end where a fifth pitch is used.