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Parabola's Summer 1980 issue: Music Sound Silence The notion of music, seen from the concept of sound as the life force, becomes huge; but somehow we assent to it. It "strikes a chord," and the very expression witnesses its truth; as P. L. Travers would say, it is in our bloodstream. Our questions are too small, it seems, to be answered; music is indefinable because it is a movement toward something larger than our vision--creation itself, a structure of universal order whose top vanishes in the clouds. Steve Reich, the searching composer whom we have interviewed in this issue, has written elsewhere that "listening to an extremely gradual musical process opens my ears to it, and it always extends farther than I can hear." What the laws of music and vibration reveal is precisely this structure in which we can find our roots and our reason for being, all the more convincingly because the vision is reflected in all other aspects of existence as in an infinite series of mirrors. The vibrant sound which is the life force is also movement and heat and color. The law of the octave echoes through the light spectrum and through the cycles of every human life. --from the editorial Focus Cover: Buddhist disciple playing with cymbals Painting on a pippala leaf. China, nineteenth century. From the book Zen by Anne Bancroft, with the permission of Thames and Hudson. In this issue:
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