Richard A. Ujvary ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>You know besides the sounds of silence sometimes there are sounds that
>aren't even there!  Holland, the music critic of the Times, alludes in a
>piece on musical silence to an example by Rosen in his book "The Romantic
>Generation"...

Silence is an essential component of practically all music.  It's the space
between the notes.  When we hear the space between the notes, we don't
forget the notes that came before the space (i.e.  silence).

Mike