Hello, Stuart. Very nice! I have ordered the music through my library to have a first-hand look at the score.
-- R On Dec 21, 2012, at 3:08 AM, WALSH STUART wrote: > The little piano piece, A Room was written several years before 4' 33". > > It can be played as it is or with preparations (different sized bolts, > rubber, weather stripping, a penny). It's in 4/4 (bot not notated as such) > and it's a stream of quavers. Sometimes the note stems are up and sometimes > point down. The quavers are single or grouped in 2s, 3s and 4s, sometimes > across bar lines. But performances by pianists on youtube just sound like > steady flows of notes. > > There is a structure 2 x (4,7,2,5,4,7,2,3,5) which, at least or only, means > phrase structure, and page 2 follows the phrase structure of page 1 (with the > same basic material now altered in each phrase). > > Of all the composers who exist or whoever existed, John Cage seems the most > unlikely candidate for portraying psycho turmoil in his music yet there > really is something anxious and nervy going on. Extensive biographical > research (skimming the wikipedia entry) reveals that Cage's marriage was > failing at this time and he was about to meet Merce (unusual male name) so > maybe he was feeling a bit confused. > > Stuart >> On Dec 20, 2012, at 5:45 PM, adS <rainer.aus-dem-spr...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >>> 4'33" - >> You're absolutely right, but when I do it, it's two minutes shorter because >> I skip the first movement--I've never liked it, unlike the other two. >> >> BTW, there's video of "the full orchestral version" at: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUJagb7hL0E >> >> Particularly effective when conductor Lawrence Foster takes out his >> handkerchief and mops his brow after the first movement. >> >> >> -- >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > >
