Out of Cage: Four Ukrainian Meditations after John Cage
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https://doi.org/10.68347/6bf2b821Keywords:
avant-garde, creative influence, John Cage, Ukrainian contemporary music, Ukrainian composers, Svyatoslav Lunyov, Serhii Vilka, Vitalii Vyshynskyi, Albert SaprykinAbstract
The article investigates the peculiarities of the influence of the work of the American composer John Cage on the work of four Ukrainian composers; analyses the way in which Ukrainian composers have reinterpreted the fundamental compositional and conceptual ideas of a number of J. Cage’s works, including his famous piece 4’33”; highlights the originality of the Ukrainian composers’ understanding of Cage’s vision of music and creativity.
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