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In the song lyrics of The Sound of Silence written by the American music duo Simon and Garfunkel, silence is referred to as sound. Here, the composers use words to allude to silence as something that can be ‘touched’ and ‘disturbed’, and as a receptacle for his visions and words. Surprisingly, André Kostelanetz, another popular orchestral music conductor, arranger and pioneer of English easy listening music, considers utter silence as the greatest sound of all. This is rather paradoxical considering that silence and sound are antithetical, and a tad coincidental that these musicians who are most in touch with sounds should value silence.
| Understanding the passage: (i) What do Simon and Garfunkel say about silence? (ii) What does Kostelanetz say about silence |
14. According to paragraph 1, how do Simon and Garfunkel and Kostelanetz describe silence?
| Understanding the question: “How…describe” requires you to the text which conveys the idea. |