So Percussion performs John Cage's "Third Construction"
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Construction is the title of several pieces by American composer John Cage, all scored for unorthodox percussion instruments. The pieces were composed in 1939--42 while Cage was working at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington and touring the West Coast with a percussion ensemble he and Lou Harrison had founded. The series comprises three Constructions.
Third Construction
Composed in 1941 and dedicated to Xenia Kashevaroff-Cage, to whom Cage was then married and who played in his percussion orchestra. Third Construction is scored for four percussionists. There are 24 sections of 24 bars each, and the rhythmic structure is rotated between the players: 8, 2, 4, 5, 3, 2 for the fourth, 2, 8, 2, 4, 5, 3 for the first, etc.
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The reason this music is important is because at the the time it was written, it was innovative. Think about Beethoven--if anyone today wrote the ending of a piece repeating the I and V chord like him, it would be considered a joke. Whether you enjoy the piece or not is your opinion, but you cannot deny that this IS music. Cage's Constructions have helped pave the way for the percussion world as we know it today, so I suggest taking your classification of Cage's MUSIC out of those quotations.
Memorized! Nice work, gentlemen.
AMAZING!!!! You have to see them in person in a concert. It changes your idea of what music can really be, not just formulas of 3 minute canned patterns with 3 chords....not just the same old computer-generated sounds....not just clips or copies of world music. Hearing and seeing a 30-minute piece LIVE is nothing like these small clips. A completely different experience worth having.
Very good work. Excellent performance :)
One of my favorite Cage percussion pieces...
fantastic
Wow, that is so cool!
Memorized is crazy
Genial!!
Awsome
i believe where i slept on the floor would be approximately below jason's china cymbal :)
What an awesome piece and performance!!
By any chance, does anybody know the name of the instrument which is played at 6:14? I love this!
***** thanks Emory! :)
So this is just a percussion ensemble peice?
no, it's a car commercial
Hey, you're a heckuva marimba player. I commented favorably on your Mackey video. I maintain my opinion expressed below about John Cage, however. Your comment is misplaced. I'm highly educated musically and am thoroughly familiar with Mr. Cage's work, from the percussion music to the prepared piano to the rest of the Cage circus. It does not impress me. There's lots of more interesting contemporary percussion music. I find Cage a fake, an embarrassment to the alleged taste-makers of modernism.
Varese's percussion music (among others) is far more interesting. This sounds like what a child would do if you presented him with a set of toy drums and a paint-by-numbers chart and asked him to fill in the blanks. There are moments here and there where there almost seems to be a creative flicker, but a broken clock is right twice a day, no? The performers are excellent, the drums ear-tickling, the videography alluring. The "music" isn't.
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