MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 33 Outline of Last Lecture I II Jazz The Blues Outline of Current Lecture I II John Cage Cage s Music of Changes 1951 Current Lecture I II John Cage 1912 1992 a John Cage was a true experimental composer however he was even more of an inventor b Student of Arnold Schoenberg c Cage was especially interested in rhythm and duration and not as interested in pitches or harmony d His music is not only about the sounds but about the silence in between the sounds too i Pure Organic Sound Created in Cage s music by creating indeterminacy and chance in the music 1 Cage did not want his music to reflect any kind of emotion and preferred the sound of silence to any other kind of sound Cage s Music of Changes 1951 a Composed entirely by chance i Cage drew up a chart with 64 slots for 1 Number of events per container 2 Tempos ii Then Cage selects from eight charts for each of three categories 1 Sounds including silences and unpitched noises 2 Dynamics and accents 3 Durations iii Cage s selections from these charts are done entirely by throwing I Ching coins to composer this piece entirely by chance 1 In Zen they say if something is boring after two minutes try it for four If it is still boring try it for eight sixteen thirty two and so on Eventually one discovers that it s not boring at all but very interesting
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