[silence] The percussion Number Pieces of John Cage

[Kraig Grady]

It says
72' (CD Length)
 in the score?
  Was the goal a recording?


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Lê Quan Ninh wrote:
> Le 23 mai 08 à 12:32, al.popoff@free.fr a écrit :
>
>   
>> One4 is quite peculiar in many points, as compared to Six or Three2
>> (unfortunately I don't have the score for Four4 so I can't speak  
>> about it).
>>     
>
> For information, here is the Cage's instruction for Four4 :
>
> "Single percussion sounds in flexible time brackets. Since the  
> beginning periods and ending periods overlap a sound can be long,  
> medium in lenght, short or very short. Very long sounds should not be  
> loud unless nothing else is either actually or potentially happening.  
> In the case that a sound is alone amplitude is completely free. Where  
> such periods exist is to be learned in rehearsal, so that when the  
> performance is given all the players know when they are free with  
> respect to amplitude. The piece is 72' (CD lenght). Whenever there is  
> no activity, simply listen, as listeners to the finished recording  
> will, hearing the sounds wherever they are."
>
> Ninh
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