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Originally Posted by Frownland
You're really grasping at straws if this is really all you have to go on to claim that it isn't music. I could go and tell musicians which notes to play out of a song I thought up, but it's a lot easier to put it on paper and show it to them. What does it matter if there's an alternative? The route that Cage went was not the one you propose, the compositional route.
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My point is rather easy to grasp: it doesn't matter that 4'33 is a composition, because the composition isn't even required to exist in order to perform it. My greater point being that if it
is still music, then the presence of a composition is irrelevant and you should stop bringing it up, otherwise you run the risk of looking like you don't really know what your argument even is.