Background info and performance circumstances Flashcards

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John Cage

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one of the most influential figures in 20th-century music, although in his time he was maligned and misunderstood

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his achievements were to

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  • develop percussion
  • exploit elements of chance in performance
  • explore new sound sources
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he considered

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rhythmic duration to be the most significant of the musical elements

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Cage developed a system

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for structuring music based on mathematical proportions

called ‘micro-macrocosmic’

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Sonata and Interludes

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were the culmination of Cage’s early work and brought together many aspects of music and philosophy of the 1940s

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this piece is

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a masterpiece of the unconventional in the 20th-century

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he accepted

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that every performance was unique and would have its own characteristics

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