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Teaching Cage’s “Silent Piece”
- Leonardo Music Journal
- The MIT Press
- Volume 26, 2016
- pp. 78-79
- Article
- Additional Information
This brief article summarizes the results not only of several years’ worth of classroom performances and follow-up discussions of John Cage’s “silent piece”—commonly known as 4′33″—but also of students’ usually frustrated efforts to perform the piece in private.