Cage 4′33″, compositione anni 1952, innotuit, quae sonocogitato absente auditur; musici qui opus proferunt nihil praeter praesentiam per durationem titulo denotatam faciunt. Quod autem compositio continet non est "quattuorminuti et 33 secundisilentii," ut nonnulli aliquando opinantur, sed potius soni circumiecti ab audientia per perfunctionem auditi.[6][7] Opus, quia assumptas de facultate et experientiamusicae definitiones provocat, factum est res populo grata et controversa in musicologia et latioribus artis et exsecutionis aesthetica. Cage etiam fuit praecursor clavilis praeparati (clavili cuius sonus a rebus inter suas chordas vel malleos positis mutatur), pro quo multa opera saltationi cognata nonnullasque res concertatas composuit, quarum notissima est Sonatae et Interludia (1946–1948).[8]
Inter suos praeceptores fuerunt Henricus Cowell (1933) et Arnoldus Schoenberg (1933–1935), quorum ambo pro novis rebus profundis in musica notuerunt, sed maiora momenta ex variis Asiae Meridianae et Orientalisculturis venerunt. Cage, per studia philosophiae Indicae et Zen plerumque inter annos 1945 et 1950, notionem musicae aleatoricae vel forte temperatae invenit, quam anno 1951 componere coepit.[9]LiberI Ching, antiquus textus classicus Sinicus casus mutantís tractans, factus est usitatum compositionis instrumentum Cageianum. In Experimental Music, acroasi anno 1957 habita, Cage musicam descripsit "ludum vanum," qui "vitam adfirmat—nec ordinem ex chao ferre conatur nec in emendationibus creationis inest, sed simpliciter est modus expergisci ad vitam quam vivimus ipsam."[10][11]
↑Pritchett et Kuhn, Grove Online: "He has had a greater impact on music in the 20th century than any other American composer."
↑George J. Leonard, Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage (Sicagi: University of Chicago Press, 1995, ISBN 9780226472539), 120 ("when Harvard University Press called him, in a 1990 book advertisement, "without a doubt the most influential composer of the last half-century," amazingly, that was too modest").
↑David Mason, Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers (Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, 2007, ISBN 9780385142786), 1407 ("John Cage is probably the most influential . . . of all American composers to date."
↑Nicholls 2002:80: "Most critics agree that Sonatas and Interludes (1946–1948) is the finest composition of Cage's early period."
↑Denis Lejeunne, The Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art (2012), 185–189.
↑Anglice: "a purposeless play" [qui est] "an affirmation of life—not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we're living."
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