Appeal to authority! Bandwagon argument!
Duh, of course it’s an appeal to authority, the authority of the history of western classical music. As opposed to your appeal to authority, yourself!
John Cage's 4'33" was an April Fool's joke that some folks weren't bright enough to recognize as an April Fool's joke.
That is a lie and deliberately repeating the same lie makes you a what? All the hundreds of posts you’ve made fighting against ignorant and/or lying trolls and here you are being a perfect example of one. Does that make you a happy hypocrite?
What definition of music classifies 4'33'' as such? I'm assuming you are aware of the fact the one brought up doesn't do it.
You might like to start here, with wiki’s
Definition of Music.
My definition is broader than the typical definition.
But narrower than any of the more valid definitions and as you’re not actually god, you don’t get to define music. I’ve read an awful lot of musical theory over the decades, never seen “bigshot” cited as the authority.
I consider music to be "expressive organized sound".
You can consider whatever you want but as you’re not god, what you consider does not define what music is.
Webster defines it as... vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.
Which eliminates a great deal of C20th music, music composers and entire genres of music. So obviously is it wrong or at very least, massively outdated and incomplete.
Organized means it was created by man, not random or natural sounds.
Sure, Cage, Feldman, Xenakis, Ives, Stockhausen, Lutolawski, Hovannes, and countless others composed aleatoric music but according to the great god bigshot, none of this music is music because “Aleatoric Music” isn’t music. So the “Darmstadt School” never existed and neither did the “New York School” because the musical genre/movement of “Indeterminacy” isn’t a music genre by commandment of the lord god bigshot. Let’s get to burning all those music history text books and demolishing all the music conservertoires and universities that teach this history of music. Fortunately Zappa and many others are already dead but Brian Eno, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Phil and numerous others can still be burnt at the stake for their blasphemy against Bigshot’s commandments.
Expressive means that it is created by a composer with the intent of communicating a musical idea artist to listener.
So like 4’33” then!
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