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Twenty Thousand Hertz

CHAPTER

Preparing a Piano

John Cage used ideas from East Asia to find new ways to do that. Today we call a lot of John Cage's work Chance Music. Composers create some guidelines for the performer, but major parts are left up to chance. Every performance is something really special, never heard before, and never to be replicated.

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