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nilsjohan

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Silence can be expensive

on: September 27, 2002, 01:33:07 PM

Don't stay quiet, or you can end up in court for plagiarism!

https://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/23/uk.silence/

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ludwig

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Reply #1 on: September 30, 2002, 10:44:18 AM

heard about this news last friday, we actually had a laugh in uni lectures on this one, pretty halarious and outrageous...indeed what is the world coming to?!

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Re: Silence can be expensive

Reply #2 on: November 16, 2002, 12:42:35 PM

I've heard someone say that John Cage's 4'33'' is his finest composition. And the guy saying this actually meant it as a compliment...

I sure hope "A One Minutes Silence" is not the best song in that rock album...

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Reply #3 on: February 21, 2003, 11:12:28 AM

*OUCH* that's gotta suck...

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Reply #4 on: March 04, 2003, 10:43:19 PM

Silence...end up in court for plagiarism...this is very wierd and amusing.

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Reply #5 on: March 25, 2003, 10:35:20 AM

My music teacher said John Cage played 4'33" at Carnegie Hall and everyone was pretty amazed...apparently he said the noises in the audience was the real music.

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Reply #6 on: April 21, 2003, 09:19:15 AM

they actually sell the score of 4'33" at some bookshops!! just pages full of rests!!!

natasha

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Reply #7 on: April 22, 2003, 11:25:26 AM

this raised one of my other post's question, what is music then? I want to be a composer, and with my lack of compositional talent, i'm probably not going to compose anything worth while, but if i can get away with that......another funny thing is, if we consider this as a proper piece of music, one of my friend's younger sister did her tertiary entrance exam for music with this piece, she got in so much trouble, what's the deal with that?

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Reply #8 on: November 02, 2004, 02:13:12 AM

Amusing story from the past....

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Reply #9 on: November 05, 2004, 01:12:59 AM

Oh so that's what Cage 4.33 is...okay okay, I'll have to brush up my sight reading to tackle that one!

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Reply #10 on: November 05, 2004, 01:14:58 AM

https://www.classicalnotes.net/columns/silence.html

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Reply #11 on: November 05, 2004, 02:23:01 AM

Quote from: natasha on April 21, 2003, 09:19:15 AM

they actually sell the score of 4'33" at some bookshops!! just pages full of rests!!!
natasha

The versions I've seen didn't have staves or rests. Just three movements marked with times and "TACET".

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Spatula

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Re: Silence can be expensive

Reply #12 on: November 05, 2004, 05:36:13 AM

I wonder if someone farted...if that could count as a "interpretation".

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