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    Freeman Etudes was written by John Cage for violin solo in 1977 using chance composition methods, resulting in an almost impossible to play series of pieces notated with extreme precision. The etudes were composed to be exactly three minutes long each, requiring an incredibly fast playing style. While Cage did not intend any particular meaning in the pieces, he was fascinated with composing using Eastern ideas and chance methods, leaving room for various interpretations by listeners.

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    Freeman Etudes was written by John Cage for violin solo in 1977 using chance composition methods, resulting in an almost impossible to play series of pieces notated with extreme precision. The etudes were composed to be exactly three minutes long each, requiring an incredibly fast playing style. While Cage did not intend any particular meaning in the pieces, he was fascinated with composing using Eastern ideas and chance methods, leaving room for various interpretations by listeners.

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    Freeman Etudes was written by John Cage for violin solo in 1977 using chance composition methods, resulting in an almost impossible to play series of pieces notated with extreme precision. The etudes were composed to be exactly three minutes long each, requiring an incredibly fast playing style. While Cage did not intend any particular meaning in the pieces, he was fascinated with composing using Eastern ideas and chance methods, leaving room for various interpretations by listeners.

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    Freeman Etudes was written by John Cage for violin solo in 1977 using chance composition methods, resulting in an almost impossible to play series of pieces notated with extreme precision. The etudes were composed to be exactly three minutes long each, requiring an incredibly fast playing style. While Cage did not intend any particular meaning in the pieces, he was fascinated with composing using Eastern ideas and chance methods, leaving room for various interpretations by listeners.

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    John Cage

    Freeman Etudes

    Freeman Etudes was written for violin solo in 1977 for violinist Paul
    Zukofsky, a series of almost impossible pieces to play, composed using
    chance methods as was common for John Cage at the time.
    I think that this is an important group of pieces for the twentieth century
    as its stretching ledger lines and incredibly complicated score; notated to
    the smallest detail, show John Cages attention to detail and fascination
    with composing almost impossible pieces using I ching and other eastern
    ideas. The idea of the etudes was to make each one exactly the same
    length: around three minutes long, and therefore, they all needed to be
    played incredibly fast. This, for me, demonstrates a birds flying and
    chirping, their bustling existence and natural beauty, and traces the path
    of their flight as they fly through treetops and over rivers and streams; the
    bubbling can be heard underneath, and the nerve-wracking encounter of
    prey on the endless journey.
    Of course, for John Cage, none of the pieces had any particular meaning,
    he just wrote them and they turned out as they did. He believed that
    music didnt need to have a meaning to be music, but that didnt stop
    people from interpreting it in their different ways.
    I think that John Cages beliefs about relationships with noise are really
    important; music shouldnt have to mean something in order for it to be
    music, it should be allowed to fly free, to crawl through brambles, to
    sweep as low as the ant scuttles, to dream
    But John Cage didnt want to stop anyone else from interpreting his music
    as they did, and by just writing music without expecting us to imagine

    certain things or picture a particular event, he left us free to believe what


    we wanted

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