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John Cage’s 4′33″ is frequently mentioned, although there may be broad agreement that this piece is not silent—its content is the ambient sounds that happen throughout its performance. (See Dodd 2018 for dissent.) Anyway, S. Davies , Dodd , and Kania all argue that Cage’s piece just isn’t music—Davies and Dodd because its sounds fail to qualify as organized, Kania because they fail to satisfy a tonality condition. Wadle argues that the pieceis music, because of its contextual connections to earlier musical works. Kania considers several different contenders for the label of “silent music,” arguing that there are certainly extant…