Can Silence Be Music?
Channel: The Listener's Guide
Date: 03/08/2017

John Cage’s 4’33” made waves in the mid-20th century. While some are quick to dismiss it as being “not music,” it turns out to be much more complicated than it seems at first. After all, for something to be “not music,” something else has to be “music”—and what is *that*?

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Wind Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 103, I. Allegro, by Ludwig van Beethoven and performed by Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Available for download at https://musopen.org/music/download/10098/.