Silence, music, silent music / edited by Nicky Losseff and Jenny Doctor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Losseff, Nicky, 1962-

Doctor, Jennifer R. (Jennifer Ruth), 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

Music.

Silence in music.

Physical Description:

xii, 253 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-243) and index.

ISBN:

9780754655596

0754655598

OCLC:

71812797