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The music of John Cage challenges our assumptions about music and how it is defined. The most famous of his works is a piece titled 4’33, which—as the textbook notes—requires the performer to walk on stage and sit through four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence while the audience watches. Do you understand this type of performance as constituting a musical event? Why or why not? If not, what would you call such a performance? Provide a definition of music, preferably in your own words. If you copy a definition from another source, please give the proper credit for your information. Would Cage’s 4?33? qualify as music under your definition? If not, how do you respond to the claim that this piece does indeed constitute music and conveys some kind of musical meaning?
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