Tags: Classical Music Composition.
Six Melodies is a collection of six pieces for violin and keyboard instrument by John Cage. It was composed in 1950 shortly after Cage completed his String Quartet in Four Parts. The work uses the same techniques: the gamut technique and the nested rhythmic proportions. First a fixed number of sonorities (single tones intervals and aggregates) is prepared each created independently of the other. These sonorities are called gamuts.