{"id":1430,"date":"2014-07-05T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T20:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2014-07-13T15:51:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T20:51:38","slug":"cage-spirituality-praising-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/2014\/07\/05\/cage-spirituality-praising-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"5 \u2014 Praising silence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1471\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1471 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StringQuartetOpening.jpg\" alt=\"John Cage String Quartet (opening)\" width=\"600\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StringQuartetOpening.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StringQuartetOpening-300x277.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts (opening)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #666666;\">[This is part of the series\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #70a0b2;\" title=\"Opening the door into emptiness\" href=\"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/writings\/cage-spirituality\/\"><em>Opening the door into emptiness<\/em><\/a><span style=\"color: #666666;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In March 1949, John Cage went\u00a0to Europe.\u00a0He traveled in Holland and Italy, but spent most of his time in Paris, where he met\u00a0composers and searched\u00a0for\u00a0obscure works by Satie. He wrote home to his parents frequently,\u00a0and described\u00a0his search\u00a0for a way forward in his music. &#8220;My new music ideas are proving more and more interesting to me,&#8221; he wrote in May, &#8220;but they are so new in conception to me that I still can&#8217;t quite grasp them, and I begin to want to know whether they will work or not.&#8221; In June he found\u00a0a space with a piano in which he could work. The music\u00a0came slowly at first (&#8220;my mind isn&#8217;t clear enough yet to get anywhere&#8221;), but by August a string quartet started to take shape. This was the beginning of his masterful\u00a0<em>String quartet in four parts<\/em>, which he completed after his return to New York.<\/p>\n<p>Silence was at the heart of Cage&#8217;s new ideas. &#8220;W<span style=\"color: #666666;\">ithout actually using silence, I should like to praise it,&#8221; he reported\u00a0to his parents.\u00a0<\/span>It was not a physical silence, and it was not the &#8220;sounding silence&#8221; of ambient noise\u00a0that he would embrace later. Silence here meant\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666666;\">the\u00a0ideas about emptiness Cage had expressed in &#8220;Forerunners of modern music&#8221;.\u00a0In a section of that\u00a0article labeled \u201cClaim\u201d, he\u00a0described for the first time the fundamental emptiness of musical structure based on duration: \u201cAny sounds of any qualities and pitches \u2026 are natural and conceivable within a rhythmic structure which equally embraces silence.\u201d Structure was silent about the sounds that went into it. And now &#8220;structure&#8221; meant any system applied to any element of music.\u00a0<\/span>He saw\u00a0compositional rules as\u00a0mental and musical disciplines that could help to empty\u00a0him of the ambitions of ego, and achieve\u00a0a music that was more free: &#8220;self-knowledge through self-denial&#8221;. But he had no clear direction on how to create the continuity within this emptiness. He needed to start composing in order\u00a0to discover the music within the silence.<\/p>\n<p>As with any composer, Cage discovered the way forward through the ups and downs of the creative process. At the start of a letter from August 27th, he reported\u00a0difficulties:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have run into problems with my new piece; I have not yet found the way for it to be a String Quartet. It is as though I had decided to write a String Quartet\u00a0and then without realizing it written something else that I don&#8217;t know about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But then later in the same letter, he reported\u00a0success: &#8220;And my music solved itself \u2014 is a quartet and I am happy about it.&#8221; What Cage discovered\u2014or in his terms, what his music discovered and &#8220;solved itself&#8221;\u2014was how to treat harmonic materials in a systematic way.<\/p>\n<p>Cage devised a methodical arrangement of the individual harmonies that formed\u00a0the musical world of the quartet. He\u00a0described it in a letter to Pierre Boulez:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Quartet uses a gamut of sounds, some single and some aggregates, but all of them immobile, that is staying always not only in the same register where they originally appear but on the same strings and bowed or produced in the same manner on the same instruments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These harmonies were related to one another in the music solely by their top notes, which supported the melody line of the quartet. For instance, consider the opening of the last movement:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1474\" src=\"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StringQuartet4.jpg\" alt=\"John Cage String Quartet 4th movement (opening)\" width=\"600\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StringQuartet4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/StringQuartet4-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The melody line here starts on a G (in the viola) and moves mostly stepwise up and down between C below and the A above. \u00a0Cage&#8217;s system of fixed sonorities means that, every time the melody lands on specific tones in that range, they are always scored in exactly the same way with exactly the same sonorities. \u00a0The C is always in the first violin with a short D underneath and a pizzicato C in the cello. \u00a0The D is always a single note in the first violin. The E is always a harmonic in the cello with an A in the viola, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of the static voicing of the harmonies and this somewhat arbitrary rule for connecting them created unusual sequences, a kind of harmonic \u201cnon-progression.\u201d Prior to this, Cage made\u00a0various arguments against\u00a0harmony: he described it as leading to &#8220;an island of decadence&#8221; in &#8220;Defense of Satie&#8221;, for example. The technique\u00a0of the new string quartet used\u00a0harmony in a non-structural way, which weakened\u00a0any sense of progression or directed movement. Cage had discovered a non-expressive\u00a0use of harmony, and he had done it by treating materials in a systematic fashion.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0created the unique sound of the string quartet. Paradoxically, by consciously setting up a structured arrangement of his selected harmonies,\u00a0Cage let go of conscious control of the harmonic continuity. The path of the\u00a0<em>String quartet in four parts<\/em> did indeed lead to &#8220;self-knowledge through self-denial,&#8221; as Cage had predicted\u00a0in &#8220;Forerunners of modern music&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0Here was a music that was, (at least harmonically)\u00a0free of the merely personal. Each individual sonority stands out, alive and vibrant on its own. The sense of motion in the piece comes entirely from the gentle melodic line (which comes to a standstill in the third movement, marked &#8220;Nearly stationary&#8221;). The lack of vibrato in the playing also contributes to the static feeling. This truly is a string\u00a0quartet\u00a0that &#8220;praises silence&#8221;: an austere music coming from an emptiness beyond time.\u00a0When the composer Jacques-Louis Monod asked him\u00a0where he was trying to go\u00a0in the quartet, Cage replied: \u201cnowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cage saw the string quartet as a\u00a0breakthrough. After completing the first movement, he\u00a0wrote to his parents that \u201cthis piece is like the opening of another door; the possibilities implied are unlimited and without the rhythmic structure I found by working with percussion and the newness, freshness of sound I found in the prepared piano, it would be impossible.\u201d Cage&#8217;s music was now a world of sounds of all kinds\u2014traditional harmonies, even\u2014appearing within empty spans of time. Their concreteness, unburdened by personal self-expression, pointed directly to the universal emptiness behind them. Cage\u00a0was now on a path of discovery\u00a0through composition;\u00a0he\u00a0was beginning to realize\u00a0the generative power of emptiness, of &#8220;Nothing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the next post in this series: <a title=\"6 \u2014 The poetry of sounds\" href=\"http:\/\/rosewhitemusic.com\/piano\/2014\/07\/13\/cage-spirituality-poetry-of-sounds\/\">6 \u2014 The poetry of sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; asides<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fineprintNote\">Cage&#8217;s letters to his parents from his 1949 European trip are currently housed in the John Cage archives at\u00a0the Northwestern University Music Library. The Cage-Boulez correspondence is there as well, and has been edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez and translated by Robert Samuels (<i>The Boulez-Cage correspondence<\/i>,\u00a0Cambridge University Press, 1993).<\/p>\n<p class=\"fineprintNote\">For a full description of the composition of the string quartet, see my book\u00a0<i>The music of John Cage<\/i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), pp. 47-55. It is worth pointing out that the quartet is not as systematic as it appears from my description. As I try to point out here, it was a process of discovery, not something that followed a preconceived plan. Cage&#8217;s letters from Paris make this clear, especially his concern when he couldn&#8217;t find the way to make it a string quartet. Presumably he was composing at the piano, but had not yet decided on the plan of a collection of harmonies fixed in their instrumentation. Perhaps he knew that he would limit the harmonies, but hadn&#8217;t figured out the fixed instrumentation part of the system. This is suggested by a passage, later in the same letter he makes the intriguing announcement that &#8220;Tomorrow morning I will finish the instrumentation of the first movement.&#8221;\u00a0It would be helpful to have some sketch or draft materials for the quartet, but, alas, these do not exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the composition of his &#8220;String quartet in four parts&#8221;, Cage went further on the path of &#8220;self-knowledge through self-denial&#8221;. 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