List of silent musical compositions  

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Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (1884), a composition by Alphonse Allais. It consists of nine blank measures and predates comparable works by John Cage ("4′33″") by a considerable margin.

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This is a list of musical works which consist mostly or entirely of silence.

Classical compositions

• Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man (1897) by Alphonse Allais, a French humorist (1854-1905)
• In futurum (1919) by Erwin Schulhoff (1894-1942)
• Monotone-Silence Symphony (1949), by Yves Klein
• 4′33″ (1952) by John Cage (1912–1992)
• 4'33" No. 2 (1962) by John Cage

Songs

• "Absolute Elsewhere" by Coil
• "Are We Here? (Criminal Justice Bill? Mix)" by Orbital
• "The Ballad of Richard Nixon" by John Denver
• "(nothing)" by The Microphones
• "The Best of Marcel Marceau" by Michael Viner
• "Beware! The Funk is Everywhere" by Afrika Bambaataa
• "Birthdeath Experience" by Whitehouse
• "A Lot of Nothing" by Coheed and Cambria (Split into 11 sections ranging from 5–15 seconds in length)
• "Magic Window" by Boards of Canada
• "The Nutopian International Anthem" by John Lennon
• "Two Minutes Silence" by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
• "One Minute of Silence" by Soundgarden
• "A One Minute Silence" by Mike Batt
• "Pregnant Pause... Intermission" by Leila Bela
• "Pure Digital Silence" by The Melvins
• "(Silence)" by Ciccone Youth
• "[Silence]" by Korn
• "[Silence]" ("A suitable place for those with tired ears to pause and resume listening later") by Robert Wyatt
• "There's a Riot Goin' On" by Sly Stone
• "Three Bagatelles for David Tudor" by György Ligeti
• "The Ten Coolest Things About New Jersey" by The Bloodhound Gang
• "Thirty-second Silence" by Guster
• "Tunnel of Goats XVII" by Coil
• "9-11-01" by Soulfly
• "12:97:24:99" by Mudvayne
• "Page 13" by Fantômas
• "Path XII Inlustra Nigror" by Vesania
• "15 Minutes" by Télépopmusik
• "18 sekúndur fyrir sólarupprás"(18 seconds before sunrise) by Sigur Rós
• "Non Musical Silence" by All-American Rejects (The album When The World Comes Down)
• "Non-Musical Silence" by Marilyn Manson (The album Antichrist Superstar consists, in addition to the regular tracks, of 72 tracks of silence, each four seconds long, followed by a song called "Untitled")
• "You Can Make Your Own Music" by Covenant (a 4 minute and 33 second silent track, in reference to John Cage's song "4′33″)
• "Intentionally Left Blank" by James Holden (in The Idiots Are Winning (2006))
• "The Sound of Free speech" by Crass
• "Schweigenminute" by VNV Nation on Praise the Fallen (1999)
• "Silence" by Brian Eno on Drums Between The Bells (2011)
• "Silencio sepulcral" (Sepulchral Silence) by Soziedad Alkoholika
• "The Misinterpretation of Silence and its Disastrous Consequences" by Type O Negative on Slow, Deep and Hard (1991)
• "In Remembrance" by Pan.Thy.Monium on Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion (1996)
• "Rwanda" by Radio Boy (2001).
• "42 Minutes of Silence" by Milosh on Quiet Time, with Milosh (2002)
• "Anniversary Of World War III" by The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band on Volume 3: A Child's Guide to Good and Evil (1968)
• "Song of the Deaf Girl" by Cloud Cult on The Meaning of 8 (2007)
• "Le chant des carpes" by Ludwig von 88 on Houlala II "la mission" (1987)

See also

• Anti-art