You are here

prepared piano of John Cage

Download pdf | Full Screen View

Date Issued:
2010
Summary:
When John Cage invented the prepared piano in 1940, he created a sound world and body of music unlike anything heard before. The innovative music he wrote for prepared piano requires a completely new approach to performance, and expands our understanding of the piano's capabilities. This study will examine the main prepared piano works by John Cage, with a detailed analysis of the Sonatas and Interludes. Cage's Table of Preparations will be examined to establish an aesthetic rationale for this preparation. Different modes of listening will be explored through a selection of the Sonatas and Interludes recorded in three different technological systems - conventional AB 2.0, surround 5.1, and Disk Jecklin. The latter allows for a true "surround sound" experience as Cage himself might have heard his own pieces. Included is a compact disc of selections from Sonatas and Interludes recorded in each of the three technological systems.
Title: The prepared piano of John Cage: a new level of hearing the Sonatas and Interludes.
496 views
56 downloads
Name(s): Ferreira, Inara de Barros
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Music
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued: 2010
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form: electronic
Extent: ix, 67 p.: ill. (some col.); music
Language(s): English
Summary: When John Cage invented the prepared piano in 1940, he created a sound world and body of music unlike anything heard before. The innovative music he wrote for prepared piano requires a completely new approach to performance, and expands our understanding of the piano's capabilities. This study will examine the main prepared piano works by John Cage, with a detailed analysis of the Sonatas and Interludes. Cage's Table of Preparations will be examined to establish an aesthetic rationale for this preparation. Different modes of listening will be explored through a selection of the Sonatas and Interludes recorded in three different technological systems - conventional AB 2.0, surround 5.1, and Disk Jecklin. The latter allows for a true "surround sound" experience as Cage himself might have heard his own pieces. Included is a compact disc of selections from Sonatas and Interludes recorded in each of the three technological systems.
Identifier: 612372063 (oclc), 1927866 (digitool), FADT1927866 (IID), fau:2968 (fedora)
Note(s): by Inara Ferreira.
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010.
Includes bibliography.
Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s): Cage, John
Cage, John -- Criticism and interpretation
Prepared piano music
Music -- United States -- 20th century
Aleatory music -- History and criticism
Avant-garde (Music) -- History and criticism
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927866
Use and Reproduction: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution: FAU