ID: 700009425 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009425	Record Type: Conceptual

4'33" (musical composition; John Cage (American composer, 1912-1992); conceived 1947-1948, first per...)

Note: Conceptual musical composition that is performed without conventional manipulation of musical instruments; the musicians are present but do not play for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. The performance is not silence, but the sounds of the environment become the piece.

Titles:

4'33" (preferred,C,U,AR,not applicable,U,U)

Four minutes, thirty-three seconds (C,U,DE,undetermined,U,U)

Four thirty-three (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: performance

Work Types:

musical composition [300417577] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Literary and Performing Arts Works (hierarchy name))

performance art [300121445]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, time-based works)

Classifications:

performing arts (preferred)

performance art

Creation Date: conceived 1947-1948, first performed 1952

Creator Display:

John Cage (American composer, 1912-1992) [preferred]

Cage, John (American composer and writer, 1912-1992) [500092036]

Locations:

Not Applicable:

Display Materials: any combination of instruments

Dimensions: not applicable

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

performance art (preferred,isness)

performing arts (isness)

musical

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Conceptual Works

.......... Conceptual works by class: for video, film, performing arts

Sources and Contributors:
4'33"	........ [VP]
	........ Kotz, Post-Cagean Aesthetics (2001)
	........ Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Four thirty-three	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
	..... Kotz, Post-Cagean Aesthetics (2001)