Rest in music
Rests are part of the structure of any sort of music, aspects of space and time interwoven naturally within the conversation and dialogue that make up a piece, be it a lively tune, a folk song, or a concerto. These places take the conversation forward as much as do notes and words, melody and lyric. Rather like spaces which occur in 
conversation with friends -- places for the mind and heart to take in what’s going on, to make a point, to get ready for the next turn.
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Music road trip: Cape Breton
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conversation with friends -- places for the mind and heart to take in what’s going on, to make a point, to get ready for the next turn.music where you can hear this, and to help you think about these ideas
Music road trip: Cape Breton
Three Fiddle CDs for Fall
Celtic Kenya musical connection
photograph was made on the eastern coast of Ireland, and is copyrighted. thank you for respecting this
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4 Comments:
Its interesting you should post this today- my husband and I were just discussing the importance of 'rests' in conversations...and I like how you tied in the musical rests to the rests in conversations between friends.
What a lovely way of explaining rests - I've never really thought of conversation as musical before, but they are the punctuation in a piece of music, aren't they?
It's been a long time since I took music lessons, but your beautiful description of rests took me back.
I don't think I've heard a description of rests come close to th lyrical way you describe it here. It really changes the way you listen to - and interpret music, I think, when it's thought of in these terms. Thank you!
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