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 | | Cage had been attempting to express in his music the nine Indian emotions (erotic, heroic, odiousness, anger, mirth, fear, sorrow, wondrousness, and tranquility), and, noticing that even an erotic or heroic piece might draw only laughter from the audience, decided that the attempt to communicate emotion in continually advancing musical styles was futile: |
 | | Starting with Music of Changes for piano (1951), Cage's music demonstrated the behavior of the kind of society he hoped would eventually arise in the world. |
 | | Whether this is what Karlheinz Stockhausen was after or not, Cardew took Stockhausen to task for the mysticism with which he surrounded himself and his performances, calling it a traditional tool to distract the masses from the fact of their oppression. |
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