Living Room Music is 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. Living Room Music is dedicated to Cages 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 Steins short poem The World Is Round spoken or sung. The third movement is optional. It includes a melody played by one of the performers on any suitable instrument.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:05:33 +0000
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