>Actually, the score for 4'33" is probably one of the shortest scores
>ever written, easily fitting onto one page. This is the score:
>
> I
>TACET
>
> II
>TACET
>
> III
>TACET
There is a little more to the score than this, somewhere I have a web site that has a scanned version of the score by Cage available on-line. It does have three movemnets in defined measures, albiet with full rests in each meter.
In the interim;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage
isn't a bad source for information on Cage and his music, other than 4:33.
Depending on your perspective 4:33 is either a piece of intellectual wankery or a remarkably layered piece. I go with the latter. Cage was a Buddhist, making a koan of a piece music with no sound is one of the things I think he wanted to achieve. Making people aware of the ambient level of noise and distraction we live in with is another. I used this piece in a service on Zen (with an explanation so people didn't think the audio system was toasted) and I had people approach me afterwards saying they never knew that silence could be so noisy.
PC
N P Childs
'I'm Mister Bad Example, the stranger in the dirt, I like to have a good time and I don't care who gets hurt'.
-Mr. Bad Example, W Zevon