John Cage was famously disinterested in the conventions of Western tonal harmony because harmonic progressions tend to be predictable and tend to keep the listener from really hearing the sounds, simply eliciting responses to familiar patterns. Later in his life, though, he developed a view of harmony that stood outside tonal conventions, in which the element of predictability and cause-and-effect was eliminated, but in which a complex, organic relationship between harmonic sonorities could exist. By the 1970s, Cage had ...
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John Cage was famously disinterested in the conventions of Western tonal harmony because harmonic progressions tend to be predictable and tend to keep the listener from really hearing the sounds, simply eliciting responses to familiar patterns. Later in his life, though, he developed a view of harmony that stood outside tonal conventions, in which the element of predictability and cause-and-effect was eliminated, but in which a complex, organic relationship between harmonic sonorities could exist. By the 1970s, Cage had turned his attention to harmony as a significant element in this music, and derived it from the chance processes that he had previously used on other musical parameters. In his Number Pieces, he produced work in which the element of harmony was central, though entirely on his own terms. Two2, the 36-movement piece for two pianos recorded here, is a superb example of the composer's ability to bring his unique vision to an aural reality that confirms its aesthetic integrity, and is at the...
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