Silence is not the opposite of music.
It is only in the context of silence that music can be composed, performed, listened to and appreciated.
By observing a painting of violins in a resting position we can draw what, on the face of it, might seem a far-fetched comparison between 20th- century abstract art and the musical abstraction of the Baroque period, thereby contributing to the endless process of reflection on the ultimate sense of reinterpreting early music, on how and why such a venture should be undertaken. |
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