Talk:Musical composition

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[edit] John Cage complaint

-Anybody else find that statement about Cage generally not being considered a composer completely ridiculous? The pursuit of 'true beauty via music'?? This seems like a weak definition of the goal of composing. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 206.223.174.120 (talk • contribs) .

Yes it is ridiculous. I'm definitely not a fan of Cage's music, but I still think this article is too unnecessarily hard on his techniques. In particular, the whole article seems to be slanted to more Western "traditional" values, such as the mentioned "craft of musical composition" that Cage is purported not to follow. What exactly is this craft? Does it not include experimental and aleatoric music? I'm removing those statements about Cage that follow unstable slants. I understand if some believe that stuff about Cage, but c'mon folks, this doesn't need to be in an encyclopedia. (And note that just because only a "few" of his works contain this "craft of musical composition" doesn't mean Cage is not a composer...) Horncomposer 19:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

It has been removed. Good work. Hyacinth 20:25, 15 May 2006 (UTC)