巴赫前的(寂静

　　“The Sil ence bef:_or;e B)^a_ch” `is an ap
`proach to music and ;/ th @e)\ )(*tra+,(des -
=and s% u =_`bjects that /surround it t(hrough :)Bach’s w@orks.　　A look\]
# at the)\ p;=rofou(
nd dramaturgi c re?,lati)%%on=_ship between i#$+m ])age and m; :u`s;ic w.here the _latter i^.s not merely conceived as subsidiary to th@,]e i):mage
but as a subject of the na%)rra#tio$ \n in its ]$own right.![　　Th_)e film spr:%ings from a pr%_evio@@us]-ly`? de@(f(ined music ?al structure. T)-)#(he sou_:ndtrac]k feeds on works [#b %(+y _J.S/\^ Bach and/-\ tw+o of Felix Mendelssohn’s sonatas to crea[$$:te :,
)an ?+arch=+*_;itect (ural*( :?vault bene:;%ath whi ch the story of th e #/film unfolds a pr+omenade thr^,/ough the XVIIIth,$;? X IXth ^a/_(]nd XXIth centu$ries le@d by the hand of J.S. Ba\ #c/]h.