ID: 700009429 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009429	Record Type: Movable Work

4'33" (performance (performance art); John Cage (American composer, 1912-1992); performed April 1985)

Note: John Cage's conceptual musical composition was performed by Jeffrey Kresky at William Paterson College in Wayne, New Jersey in April 1985. The piece, which calls for 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence, was on this occasion performed theatrically with a page-turner for the score, which was represented by blank pages used as a prop. Kresky mimed a typical piano recital without playing any notes.

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 April 1985

Creator Display:

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

Jeffrey Kresky (American musician and professor, born 1948) [,VP]

performance artist Kresky, Jeffrey (American musician and professor, born 1948) Extent: execution [500451122]

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

Locations:

Not Applicable: Wayne [7014599] Passaic county (county), New Jersey (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]
	........ Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
	........ Fetterman, John Cage's Theatre Pieces (2012)
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Four thirty-three	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules
four minutes thirty-three seconds	........ [VP]
	........ Getty Vocabulary Program rules

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

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
	..... Fetterman, John Cage's Theatre Pieces (2012)