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Ian Crisp rises to my clever bait:
>>I do deny that Cage's little piece contains no music whatsoever. It's a
>>piece full of rests. Rests are music.
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>No they're not. They are one of the components of music.
Hmm. So therefore a note isn't music either, but merely a component.
How about a group of notes? Is that music? If so, why not a group of rests?
Ian goes on to point out that it's the organization of these components
that gives rise to music. I agree. I would, however, contend that Cage
organizes the rests - etremely loosely, I admit, but it's there. There
are movements and timings, etc. (although not much of an etc.).
Oh what the hell? I'm giggling as I write.
An interesting question has always been to me bird song - natural sounds
that many have taken as music, but is it? Do birds sing or call? Does a
bird organize sound or does it simply emit what's been implanted in its
birdy brain for survival? Where's David Attenborough when he's needed?
Bloody-minded Steve Schwartz
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