ID: 700009430 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009430	Record Type: Movable Work

4'33" (In Proportional Notation) (score (documents for music); John Cage (American composer, 1912-1992); 1952-1953; Museum of Modern Art (New York City, New York state, United ...; 1636.2012 )

Note: 4’33” (In Proportional Notation) is the earliest surviving score for John Cage’s “silent piece,” first performed by the pianist David Tudor in Woodstock, New York, on August 29, 1952. Whereas the lost original score used conventional musical notation to signify three periods of silence, this score is composed of a series of vertical lines. The duration of the three movements corresponds to the distance between the lines, equating spatial and temporal measurements. Cage dedicated 4’33” (In Proportional Notation), the second iteration of his “silent” piece, to his friend Irwin Kremen and gave it to him on his twenty–eighth birthday, in 1953.

Titles:

4'33" (In Proportional Notation) (preferred,C,U,AR,English-P,U,U)

Four minutes, thirty-three seconds (In Proportional Notation) (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: item

Work Types:

score (documents for music) [300026427] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by form>, <documents for oral or performed works>, <documents for musical works>)

musical composition [300417577]

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

Classifications:

performing arts (preferred)

music / musical instruments

performance art

Creation Date: 1952-1953

Creator Display:

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

draftsman Cage, John (American composer and writer, 1912-1992) Extent: execution [500092036]

Locations:

New York [7007567] New York state (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: Museum of Modern Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500303609] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1636.2012

Credit Line: Acquired through the generosity of Henry Kravis in honor of Marie-Josée Kravis

Display Materials: ink and paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: page (each): 11 x 8 1/2" (27.9 x 21.6 cm); sheet (each, unfolded): 11 x 16 15/16" (27.9 x 43.1 cm)

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)

Copyright: © 2018 John Cage Trust

Provenance: Acquired through the generosity of Henry Kravis in honor of Marie-Josée Kravis

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" (In Proportional Notation)	........ [VP]
	........ Daniels, Sounds Like Silence: John Cage, 4'33", [exhibition catalog] (2012)
	........ Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-)
Four minutes, thirty-three seconds (In Proportional Notation)	........ [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]
	..... Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) [online] (2010-) 1636.2012