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Pop music’s problem with silence

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    What are the uses of silence in music and why is popular music so afraid of them? In this video I look at the various ways composers use silence, and why so …

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    1. Friedrich Siemers says:
      5 years ago

      I couldn't disagree more with your opinion about Bach. He does a) use pauses very sophisticated for example in pretty much every recitativo of the Matthäuspassion. Another very good examples for complete silence: "Es ist nun nichts" in "Jesu meine Freude" or, even more pronounced: Actus Tragicus BWV 106 before the Alt/Bass – Aria ("In deine Hände") there is a general break in all voices over a whole measure with fermata over each break. With a pedant (in a positive sense) like bach this is no coincidence. If you abstract your idea of silence a little further: All the very special arias with bassetto-bc (for example: "Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben" – this does have a lot of real silence btw.) can be seen as a special form of silence. Bach is just way too sophisticated to be compared "to modern pop-music" (your comparison). He's just not a composer of showmanship through obvious effects.

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    2. [v0id] mg says:
      5 years ago

      I made a two second pause in a two minute breakcore track because I couldn't link the two parts I wrote

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    3. Debussy Chopin says:
      5 years ago

      Debussy worked with silence in piano in many ways like in Little Shepherd he brings the small 2page piece to seem like a little chronological excerpt of in the life of the shepherd, the pause markings making it seem like four sections of his day or week. Or the rest before the last chord in Prelude suite bergamasque , the silence seems more like a rush towards that final climactic chord ( if the pianist plays the piece well). Or like in Hommage a Rameau in measure 30 , he plays with a quarter rest between reconvening with the same low G note (he modulates though ) as if you are listening to a radio broadcast but came back after a commercial on the same note.
      At least those are my thoughts. He was genius. So many other things he did with silence and other things. But his music moves the soul.

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    4. HUUUUUURRRR says:
      5 years ago

      One of my favorite examples of "Silence" is ELP's "Karn Evil Number 9, where Greg Lake sings "We've got Thrills and SHOCKS", and all of the music is muted for the word "SHOCKS", so it gives a shocking effect to the Word, because you're not expecting it.

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    5. chiefindisguise says:
      5 years ago

      Fascinating

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    6. E Urban says:
      5 years ago

      The silence is deafening.

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    7. Alec Lynch says:
      5 years ago

      Interestingly, I feel like a lot of chopped and screwed remixes are trying to bring a similar sense of silence to that in a lot of the religious music you mentioned

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    8. Andrew Laflamme says:
      5 years ago

      "Have a listen to this silence." Had me turning up the volume. Well done.

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    9. Jim Lang says:
      5 years ago

      I have a rock song that includes two quarter beat rests where the whole band is silent. Trying to get a drummer to not play that beat is always a struggle.

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    10. Andrew Jones says:
      5 years ago

      It's surprising no one has mentioned The Beatles Day in the Life, just before the big chord at the end.

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    11. AurielS14 says:
      5 years ago

      Oooh so that's why they paused in plainchant, interesting. Also hahaha I was waiting for Cage – interesting what people define as music. Ooh and I have just been looking into Takemitsu so Im very curious to dig into it more – an overall very interesting video thank you!!! 🙂

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    12. Pedro Otávio Cavalcante says:
      5 years ago

      Wonderful video… Very delicate

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    13. Jennie Gardner says:
      5 years ago

      I love the silence at the end of a piece played in concert. I heard the organist Naji Hakim play at St Giles' in Edinburgh: someone started clapping while the last chord was still resonating. I was so upset – the building was still singing! One of my favourite uses of silence in choral rep is Purcell's use of rests in 'Thou Knowest Lord' from the Funeral Music. Silent footfalls in a funeral procession …

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    14. Matias Mendez Parisi says:
      5 years ago

      great use of silence in pop culture could be "silencio" by jorge drexler

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    15. carlsong643 says:
      5 years ago

      EDM is a genre that is actually starting to play with silence quite well

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    16. Manny Wilde says:
      5 years ago

      Van Morrison uses the Silence a lot. Works wonderfully every time

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    17. Nowananda Music says:
      5 years ago

      I'm an Ecstatic Dance DJ (we dance without alcohol or drugs, shoes, or chit chat), and i love including at least one moment silence in the middle of a 2-hour dance journey. Then at the end, I usually fade out into silence and try to keep it for as long as possible, sometimes up to 5 minutes.

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    18. astrovouk says:
      5 years ago

      Although not really 'pop' music there is a piece called Left Where It Fell by Brian Eno that contains an audacious 5 minutes of total silence in a 20 minute song….

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    19. NicleT says:
      5 years ago

      I love the tension in the silence before the guitar solo in Good Times Bad Times of Led Zeppelin. https://youtu.be/lsZG7n7ries?t=84

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    20. Surya Gurung says:
      5 years ago

      is that a tabla in the top left?

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    21. Surya Gurung says:
      5 years ago

      is that a tabla in the top left?

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    22. Surya Gurung says:
      5 years ago

      is that a tabla in the top left?

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    23. Garret Kaplan says:
      5 years ago

      What’s the name of the story Takemitsu Piece?

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