Hidden music: An exploration of silence in music and music therapy

It is the “somethingness” that we usually attend to in music, not the “nothingness”, and yet the uses of silence are numerous: silence may be mere punctuation or a minute interval between two articulated tones. It may be short or long, measured or unmeasured, interruptive or noninterruptive, tensed or relaxed. But in one way or another the silence becomes a part of the music.