Silence In Music

Michael Dörr
1 min readSep 27, 2018

There is a famous german author named Heinrich Böll, who published the story of “Dr. Murke’s collected Silence”. In this novel all the breaks without speech were collected, one minute in the whole.
Refering to music we know a similar thing. You don’t suspect it, but there are tunes, which don’t just have vocals and instrumental music but short moments of …silence. You’ve read correctly. Breaks, stops, interruptions or pauses that make the recording attractive.

For instance sometimes a song gets to the end und it is finished — so you think - but after after a short while it continues. It’s a terrible thing for a discjockey, if he doesn’t know this, because he begins to talk after the supposed end, until suddenly the music goes on.

Famous examples herfore are

Hello Goodbye (the Beatles)

No Matter What (Badfinger)

Zabadak (DDDBM & T)

Maybe you know another tune, that fits in the described scheme.

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