John Cage
Monday 9/26 to Friday 10/7
● Be able to visually and aurally identify
percussion instruments.
● Learn how a piano can be altered to make
different sounds.
● Learn about the music of John Cage.
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What does the timpani sound like?
The Timpani in the Orchestra
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Etude #1, Scherzo by Tom Freer
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What does a marimba sound like?
Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
What does a xylophone sound like? Bach (21 sec.)
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What does a vibraphone sound like?
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Ode to Joy, Beethoven
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What do tubular bells sound like?
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Percussion 101: Chimes
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Vic Firth (3:03)
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BBC National Orchestra of Wales - Percussion
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How to Play the Tambourine How to Play the Guiro How to Play the Triangle
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Marching Percussion 101: Section Demonstration
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Chick and a Roll (2:42)
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What does a piano sound like?
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John Cage 4’33”
Watch the linked video: https://youtu.be/JTEFKFiXSx4
4′33″ is a musical composition by John Cage created in 1952 and first performed on August 29 of that year. It quickly became
one of the most controversial musical works of the 20th century because it consisted of silence or, more precisely, ambient
sound—what Cage called “the absence of intended sounds.”
Cage conceived the piece in 1948, when he gave it the working title “Silent Prayer.” The work’s manuscript declared that it was
written “for any instrument or combination of instruments.” It then specified that there were three movements of set
duration—33 seconds, 2 minutes 40 seconds, and 1 minute 20 seconds, respectively. For each movement, Cage’s sole
instruction to the performer(s) was “Tacet” (used in music to indicate that the musician is not to play). For the first performance
of 4′33″, pianist David Tudor used a stopwatch, opening or closing the keyboard lid at the designated intervals. Although most
audience members at first had no idea what to make of Cage’s composition—and, indeed, some left in a huff—it gradually
became clear to the discerning that the work was intended to help the audience discover the impossibility of actual silence in
life. Coughing audience members, squeaking seats, even departing footsteps became part of the unusual composition.
Click here to learn more about this piece!
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Almost all the music Cage composed from the late
1930s through the 1940s was for various percussion
ensembles and for prepared piano. Cage began
vandalizing pianos in a very special way, by placing paper
clips, screws and bolts (of different sizes), rubber
erasers on and between certain strings, thumb-tack in
hammers, weaving paper and other objects through
strings, and so forth. Cage called such an instrument a
“prepared piano”.
Watch this video to see John Cage’s 5th Sonata! This
is Cage's most famous work for prepared piano, and
also the most complex: piano preparation takes about
2–3 hours and involves forty-five notes.
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