ID: 700009427 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009427	Record Type: Movable Work

4'33" (performance (performance art); John Cage (American composer, 1912-1992); performed 29 August 1952)

Note: John Cage's conceptual musical composition was first performed by David Tudor at the the Maverick Concert Hall near Woodstock, New York on Friday, August 29, 1952. The piece, which calls for 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, in three movements, was on this occasion performed by Tudor with a piano. He raised and lowered the keyboard cover two times and depressed one of the pedals of the instrument during the duration of 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)

four minutes thirty-three seconds (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: performance

Work Types:

performance (performance art) [300121445] (preferred)

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

musical composition [300417577]

..... (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)

music / musical instruments

performance art

Creation Date: performed 29 August 1952

Creator Display:

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

David Tudor (American musician, composer, and sound artist, 1926-1996) [,VP]

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

performing artist Tudor, David (American musician, composer, and sound artist, 1926-1996) [500124542]

Locations:

Not Applicable: Woodstock [7014644] Ulster county (county), New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: piano

	pianos [300042909]
	.......(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Sound Devices (hierarchy name), sound devices (equipment), <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>, chordophones, zitherlike chordophones, zitherlike chordophones: struck)

Dimensions: not applicable

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

performance art (preferred,isness)

performing arts (isness)

musical

undetermined

Specific Subjects:

	sound (acoustics) [300056060]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, physics concepts, acoustics concepts) (AAT)

	silence [300417596]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), scientific concepts, physical sciences concepts, physics concepts, acoustics concepts) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: performance art or installations

..... Conceptual Works

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

............... 4'33"

Sources and Contributors:
4'33"	........ [VP]
	........ Kotz, Post-Cagean Aesthetics (2001)
	........ Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
	........ Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-)
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Four thirty-three	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
four minutes thirty-three seconds	........ [VP]

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

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Kotz, Post-Cagean Aesthetics (2001)
	..... Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
	..... Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) 1636.2012