Cage Prepared Piano And The Current Development

John Milton Cage is an "American composer, philosopher and writer on music, He is in American generations of avant-garde music centre。 The influence of his works and the aesthetic thought throughout the world, especially in the two time since the war, he more than any American composer in the twentieth Century of world music has greater impact." His position in the history of the development of modern music American is play a decisive role, it can be said that he is the leader in the field of avant-garde art or prophet, his unique way of exploration and research, has opened up a new path for the twentieth Century music, has injected new blood, is a milepost the development of Western music. This paper will discuss the prepared piano around Cage, discusses the development course, prepared piano playing prepared piano need preparation materials, prepared piano works of genres and types of research and so on, and certainly the prefabricated piano music creation in twentieth Century significance, historical status, provides new ideas and methods for the new the development of music, music to us about the cultural value has brought new insights and inspiration.