Hubbub
Nicholas Spice, 6 July 1995
Repeated Takes: A Short History of Recording and its Effects on Music
by Michael Chanan.
Verso, 204 pp., £39.95, May 1995,1 85984 012 4 Show More
by Michael Chanan.
Verso, 204 pp., £39.95, May 1995,
Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak Easy Listening and other Moodsong
by Joseph Lanza.
Quartet, 280 pp., £10, January 1995,0 7043 0226 8 Show More
by Joseph Lanza.
Quartet, 280 pp., £10, January 1995,
“... of silence. I was recently struck by this relationship of music to silence when I saw the Mark Morris Dance Group perform ‘Neue Liebeslieder Walzer’ to the music of Brahms. At the end of the work, when the dance has subsided into a circular tableau of figures sleeping in the shadows, at the precise moment when the sound of the last note is about to ... ”