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The English lutenist bows as the King looks up and Peter Claire will always remember that, as King Christian first glimpses him in this dark middle of a winter's night, there comes into His Majesty's eyes a look of astonishment and, staring intently at the lute player's face, he whispers a single word: 'Bror.'

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo Johnson DL et al (2001) Exposure criteria, occupational exposure levels. Goelzer B, Hansen CH, Sehrndt GA. Occupational exposure to noise: evaluation, prevention and control. Dortmund/Berlin: World Health Organization 2001:79–102If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up.” – Anna Akhmatova You may also like: The most famous (and memorable) move quotes of all-time: https://brightdrops.com/movie-quotes

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Music does not consist, in the first place, of words, language. It consists of pure sounds, and it consists of pure sounds only to those who don’t know anything beyond sound. Those who know silence – for them, the whole gestalt changes.Liu Y, Petrini MA (2015) Effects of music therapy on pain, anxiety, and vital signs in patients after thoracic surgery. Complement Ther Med 23(5):714–718

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Berman A, Snyder S, Frandsen G (2016) Kozier & Erb’s fundamentals of nursing: concepts, process, and practice, 10th edn. Pearson, Boston The long rest also teases us for our assumption that something cyclical must stop. After the wheel starts again in bar 225, it stops dead four more times. Each time on a perfect cadence. Followed by a silence. And then a restart. Mohammadi A et al (2014) Effects of music listening on preoperative state anxiety and physiological parameters in patients undergoing general surgery: a randomized quasi-experimental trial. Cent Eur J Nurs Midwifery 5(4):156–160 Malakoutikhah A, Dehghan M, Ghonchehpoorc A et al. (2020) The effect of different genres of music and silence on relaxation and anxiety: a randomized controlled trial. EXPLORE 16(6):376–371

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Sabzevari A, Kianifar H, Jafari SA et al. (2017) The effect of music on pain and vital signs of children before and after endoscopy. Electron Physician 9(7):4801–4805 He sets our expectations in bar 3 with pairs of 16th-notes, which at first cry alone (with rests underneath). The other voices join in a crescendo to a passionate downpour at bar 4. After a bit of soothing (especially from the cello’s parallel sixths under the first violin), stark fragments take over at bar 5. There is no real break in the sound for the next three bars, but the music is skeletal and bleak, with gaping registral spreads. After a loud wail in the top voice at bar 8, all the voices regroup, but run into a deceptive cadence on the third beat of the next bar. Now the sound stops. What to do? Lai HL et al (2013) Effects of music on immunity and physiological responses in healthcare workers: a randomized controlled trial. Stress Health 29(2):91–98 The power of music makes all the difference to me with motivation throughout the day.” – Paul Brodie

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Or music heard so deeply that it is not heard at all, but you are the music while the music lasts.” – T.S. Eliot That which, within our present-day music, most nearly approaches the essential of the art, is the Rest and the Hold (Pause). Consummate players, improvisers, know how to employ these instruments of expression in loftier and ampler measure. The tense silence between two movements— in itself music, in this environment—leaves wider scope for divination than the more determinate, but therefore less elastic, sound. Lieber AC et al (2018) Effects of music therapy on anxiety and physiologic parameters in angiography: a systematic review and meta-analysis. J Neurointerv Surg 0:1–9 The great Hungarian literary theorist Georg Lukács championed historical fiction because, he said, it revealed, at its best, "the great crises of historical life". He loved Walter Scott for his rebellions and revolutions and epochal clashes of ideology.The word tacet is usually used for long stretches of rest, often multiple bars (measures) or longer.