The Use of Silence in Classical Music: Perspectives on Listening and Understanding

A new and original approach to classical music – listened to, explained and described from the point of view of silence. The pianist and musicologist Emanuele Ferrari shows us the importance and many meanings that the pauses and silences in music can have. Pieces we thought we knew, like Beethoven’s Ninth or Chopin’s First Ballade, take on an entirely new aspect, as though we were listening to them for the very first time. This book offers new avenues to scholars, and offers the public an extraordinary opportunity to see deep inside the forges of the great composers