[silence] silence, sound, music, noise

[kos@panix.com]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, wim maesschalck <wimmaesschalck@gmail.com> wrote:

> 4'33", but I was wondering of some of you have good recommendations, both in
> books as in music that could possibly interest me?  From examples that
> really challenge those boundaries, as well as texts about them. Any
> link/book/author/composer is greatly appreciated.

I've liked Lydia Goehr's "The imaginary museum of musical works: an essay in 
the philosophy of music" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).


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