Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary EditionWesleyan University Press, 26.06.2012 - 312 Seiten John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." –The American Record Guide "There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. Sounds occur whether intended or not; the psychological turning in direction of those not intended seems at first to be a giving up of everything that belongs to humanity. But one must see that humanity and nature, not separate, are in this world together, that nothing was lost when everything was given away." |
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... Piano 21-52 / 60 F orerunners of M odern Music / 62 History of Experimental Music in the United States / 67 Erik Satie / 76 Edgard Varese / 83 Four Statements on the Dance / 86 Goal: New Music, New Dance / 87 Grace and Clarity L89 ...
... piano works of Edvard Grieg, partly because that composer broke the prohibition against parallel fifths, which Cage interpreted as a liberation. Cage graduat— ed high school as Valedictorian and briefly attended Pomona College, more ...
... piano, an instrument he invented in 1940 by in— serting screws, bolts, weather stripping, and other materials between the strings of a grand piano in order to turn it into a percussion instrument of indeterminate pitch. The bulk of his ...
... piano piece titled Music of Changes (1951), he used the oracle to generate random numbers to determine pitch, duration, dynamics, and other aspects of notes, to cre— ate a music totally independent of his own tastes and preferences ...
... few mentions of the prepared piano, and not much about percussion. There is, instead, plenty of talk about electronics, serialism (the expansion of the twelve—tone idea to all aspects of music), and a younger xvi/SILENCE.
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F orerunners of M odern Music 62 | 1943 |
Erik Satie 76 | 1958 |
Edgard Varese 83 | 1965 |
On Robert Rauschenherg Artist and His Work 98 | 1 |
Lecture on Something 128 | 1 |
45 for a Speaker 146 | 1 |
Where Are We Going? and What Are We Doing? 194 | |
Indeterminacg 260 | |