| Description |
xii, 253 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-242), discography (page 242), filmography (pages 242-243), and index. |
| Contents |
The texture of silence / Jenny Doctor -- Faith, silence and darkness entwined in Messiaen's 'Regard du silence' / Matthew Hill -- Sounding silence, moving stillness : Olivier Messiaen's Le banquet céleste / Jan Christiaens -- Going gently : contemplating silences and cinematic death / Stan Link -- Film sound, music and the art of silence / Ed Hughes -- Pragmatics of silence / William Brooks -- Some noisy ruminations on Susan Sontag's 'Aesthetics of silence' / Darla M. Crispin -- Preliminary thoughts about silence in early Western chant / Emma Hornby -- The communicative rest / John Potter -- The air between two hands : silence, music and communication / Julie P. Sutton -- 'Meditation is the musick of souls' : the silent music of Peter Sterry (1613-1672) / Tom Dixon -- Silent music and the eternal silence / Nicky Losseff. |
| Subject |
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics. |
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Silence in music.
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Silence in music. |
| Added Author |
Losseff, Nicky, 1962-
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Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-
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| ISBN |
9780754655596 alkaline paper |
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0754655598 alkaline paper |
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