Monday, January 23, 2012

Is a silence always a silence?

Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis of the University of Arkansas discusses in a spoken column at Inside Higher Ed why musical silence is just as important to a composition as the notes themselves:



The last sentence of the column is "If music moves you, the next time someone asks if you know anything about it, think twice before you say 'no' ". Couldn't agree more.

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  1. pranavrcMonday, January 23, 2012

    Brilliant! I've always thought music is more of a patterned disruption of silence than a collection of frequencies.

    Tweeting this. Great blog! I'm writing a similar one too :)

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