John Cage: Living Room Music (Score video)

The world was round... Living Room Music is a musical composition by John Cage, composed in 1940. It is a quartet for unspecified instruments, all of which may be found in a living room of a typical house, hence the title (Pritchett, 1993, 20). 0:00 To Begin 1:15 Story 3:46 Melody 6:10 End Living Room Music is dedicated to Cage's then-wife Xenia. The work consists of four movements: "To Begin", "Story", "Melody", and "End". Cage instructs the performers to use any household objects or architectural elements as instruments, and gives examples: magazines, cardboard, "largish books", floor, wooden frame of window, etc. The first and the last movements are percussion music for said instruments. In the second movement the performers transform into a speech quartet: the music consists entirely of pieces of Gertrude Stein's short poem "The World Is Round" (Pritchett, 1998) spoken or sung. The third movement is optional. It includes a melody played by one of the performers on "any suitable instrument." Gert Sorensen, percussion Grupo Ars Nova ------------------------------------------------------------- Video made only with educational and diffusion purposes. The videos published in this channel are only dedicated to diffussion and eduational purposes, not commercial. If someone, composer or company, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and the video will be removed immediately. Please and thanks.