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Silence, Music, Silent Music (Hardcover, New edition)
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Silence, Music, Silent Music (Hardcover, New edition)
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The contributions in this volume focus on the ways in which silence
and music relate, contemplate each other and provide new avenues
for addressing and gaining understanding of various realms of human
endeavour. The book maps out this little-explored aspect of the
sonic arena with the intention of defining the breadth of scope and
to introduce interdisciplinary paths of exploration as a way
forward for future discourse. Topics addressed include the idea of
'silent music' in the work of English philosopher Peter Sterry and
Spanish Jesuit St John of the Cross; the apparently paradoxical
contemplation of silence through the medium of music by Messiaen
and the relationship between silence and faith; the aesthetics of
Susan Sontag applied to Cage's idea of silence; silence as a
different means of understanding musical texture; ways of thinking
about silences in music produced during therapy sessions as a form
of communication; music and silence in film, including the idea
that music can function as silence; and the function of silence in
early chant. Perhaps the most all-pervasive theme of the book is
that of silence and nothingness, music and spirituality: a theme
that has appeared in writings on John Cage but not, in a broader
sense, in scholarly writing. The book reveals that unexpected
concepts and ways of thinking emerge from looking at sound in
relation to its antithesis, encompassing not just Western art
traditions, but the relationship between music, silence, the human
psyche and sociological trends - ultimately, providing deeper
understanding of the elemental places both music and silence hold
within world philosophies and fundamental states of being. Silence,
Music, Silent Music will appeal to those working in the fields of
musicology, psychology of religion, gender studies, aesthetics and
philosophy.
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