April 7, 2011

"Music is ... "


Listening to a collection of recordings by the late Mr. Buddy Holly, arranged in chronological order, we noticed that an important element in the later work, which was lacking in some of the early recordings, was silence – the quiet between the notes that lets the notes stand out. And this reminded us of Claude Debussy's maxim:
"Music is the space between the notes."

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