From and to the author) The second music, second music, is an English genre of the 17th century, part of the introduction to an opera with spoken dialogues. This is usually a small dance piece, compared to the previous overture, it is a passing and service piece. b) I can hardly consider myself a poet. I wrote these texts not as poems, but as sound forms. They're like second music to me, they follow what I'm interested in in a composition, they're second music. c) The great violinist Jascha Heifetz was asked what place the maestro assigns to himself in the world violin hierarchy. The second, he replied. "But who's the first one, Mr. Heifetz?" — Well, there are many first ones... Boris Filanovsky