On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:21:30PM -0500, Schiffel, Jeffrey A wrote:
> Christopher Menzel wrote:
> >
> > > Nonetheless, you heard *the piece*. If there is a 2-bar rest in
> > > the middle of the first movement of a symphony, say, you don't
> > > stop hearing the symphony during the silence. Cage's piece pushes
> > > that fact to the limit.
>
> Jay Halcomb wrote:
> > Queries: When does one not hear the Cage piece? Does a deaf person
> > hear the piece? Does a person in another city hear it? Someone
> > asleep? How many times does one hear the piece during a lifetime?
> > When does a performance of the piece begin and end? What is the
> > sound of one hand clapping?
>
> I just looked at my watch for 4 min 33 sec. I did not hear John Cage
> music. (01)
Of course not. You weren't attending a performance of Cage's piece. (02)
> Two measures of rest in a symphony is an architectonic feature of the
> symphonic movement. Case in point: Mahler, in the first movement of the
> second symphony has a moment where no one plays. The composer's intent
> was to let the hall play. There is a considerable reverberation apparent
> (and for what it is worth, he had a certain hall in mind in Vienna. In
> Wichita, the hall reverberates a quarter tone low). (03)
That may be a case for *your* point. There are other cases where the
composer's intention is silence, not reverberation. (04)
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