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''Living Room Music'' is a musical composition by John Cage, composed in 1940. It is a quartet for unspecified instruments, all of which may be found in a living room of a typical house, hence the title (Pritchett, 1993, 20). ''Living Room Music'' is dedicated to Cage's then-wife Xenia. The work consists of four movements: "To Begin", "Story", "Melody", and "End". Cage instructs the performers to use any household objects or architectural elements as instruments, and gives examples: magazines, cardboard, "largish books", floor, wooden frame of window, etc. The first and the last movements are percussion music for said instruments. In the second movement the performers transform into a speech quartet: the music consists entirely of pieces of Gertrude Stein's short poem "The World Is Round" (Pritchett, 1998) spoken or sung. The third movement is optional. It includes a melody played by one of the performers on "any suitable instrument." ==References== * Score: Edition Peters 6786. (c) 1976 by Henmar Press * James Pritchett. ''The Music of John Cage''. Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-521-56544-8 * James Pritchett. ''John Cage: Choral music (a timeline)'', 1998. (Available online. ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Living Room Music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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