Cage’s Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the “given” material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

About Earle Brown

Earle Brownwas an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems. Brown was the creator of “open form,” a style of musical construction that has influenced many composers since–notably the downtown New York scene of the 1980sand generations of younger composers.

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