MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Trombone, Thirty-Two-Bar Form, Moodle
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Short clip of how it is actually prepared. Can take up to 24 hours to prepare a piano for a john cage work. Much more control as well as what"s possible with new sounds and traditional instruments. Much more increased freedom, especially in 1950s. Chance music": 4"33 (1952)(the silence one from the beginning of the course) Relying on the extra music in the room and the sounds around us in order to create the music. Years ago, after i decided to devote my life to music, i noticed that people distinguished between noises and sounds i decided to fight for noises, to be on the side of the underdog john cage. Everything we do is music john cage. He would sit in his apartment in nyc and open his music, listen for sounds, counted it all as music. There are a lot of attitudes (and western biases) to what we consider music. Cage wrote a series of these pieces.
