NUMBER – many of Cage’s late pieces are often referred to as the “number” pieces, stemming from their TITLES (Two⁶ is the sixth of the number pieces to employ two players).  “Do you need some numbers? I have lots of numbers,” Cage once asked this writer.  “John Cage loved numbers,” says Mark Swed in Cage and Counting – The Number Pieces.  The use of numbers was a crucial element in Cage’s CHANCE-based compositional techniques, dividing the ranges of the violin and the piano into equal segments, determining the size of TIME BRACKETS, and distributing equally the likelihood that any given element from a pre-determined GAMUT would occur.