Author(s)

Qinyi Yu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Wuhan Huasheng Training School, Wuhan, 430000, China

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ABSTRACT

It is well-established that John Cage was an Avant-garde art composer, the founder of aleatory music. This study aims to determine how Eastern philosophy, especially Zen and I-Ching,influenced John Cage's composition.Through the analysis of the literatures, this paper briefly expounds the influence of oriental colors on the John Cage's chance music. The results showed Cage was influenced by the Zen method and brought Inaction into his musical composition, he started to focus on the sound itself.Chance music grows in the background of Eastern culture entered the Western world when utopian fantasy was completely shattered. By connecting with Asian folks, Asian philosophical thoughts, especially Zen and I-Ching, John Cage created lots of works by unparticular instruments and numbers.

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Qinyi Yu, Oriental Colors in John Cage's Chance Music. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2022) Vol. 5: 29-32. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2022.050407.

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