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A 16 page paper which examines the life and work and ideas of composer
John Cage. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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16 pages (~225 words per page)
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not commonly associated with compositions, especially operas and classical music. His work was also known for its powerful use of silence which insisted that the listener hear more than common
music. The following paper presents a brief biography of Cage, looks at Cage as an individual, Cages ideas, and lastly Cages compositions. Biography "John Cage was born in Los
Angeles in 1912. He studied with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg" (John Cage, 2003). He was the son of an inventor and as such was a
boy who was raised in a very creative and innovative environment. Early in his career he had attended Pomona College but he left early on in order to travel
through Europe in 1930-1931. He then studied with Cowell in New York in 1933-1934 and then with Schoenberg in Los Angeles in 1934. "His first published compositions, in a rigorous
atonal system of his own, date from this period. In 1937 he moved to Seattle to work as a dance accompanist, and there in 1938 he founded a percussion orchestra;
his music now concerned with filling units of time with ostinatos (First Construction (in Metal), 1939)" (BBC. Music/Artist Biography-John Cage, 2003). It was at this time that he
also began to develop an interest in electronic devices such as variable speed turntables. He "invented the prepared piano, placing diverse objects between the strings of a grand piano in
order to create an effective percussion orchestra under the control of two hands" (BBC. Music/Artist Biography-John Cage, 2003). He then moved to San Francisco in 1939, and then
to Chicago in 1941. He went back "to New York in 1942, all the time writing music for dance companies (notably for Merce Cunningham), nearly always for prepared piano or
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