When taking piano lessons in elementary school, I was introduced to the concept of the rest note—an interval of silence within a piece of music. A rest note creates a deliberate pause, a temporary ...

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Where did Western music come from? Most historical accounts credit composers with the first formations of simple tunes, which eventually led to “early music” and later classical music and the many ...