The Secret of Music: A Look at the Listening Life

The Secret of Music: A Look at the Listening Life
ISBN-10
1947067788
ISBN-13
9781947067783
Category
Music
Pages
75
Language
English
Published
2019-02-12
Publisher
Shanti Arts Publishing
Author
Joshua McGuire

Description

What is this fleeting experience that sometimes hits us when we listen to music? Through several short essays adapted from lectures given at Vanderbilt University between 2008 and 2012, author Joshua McGuire answers this question while exploring what it takes to become better listeners of music. McGuire's premise is that listening to music in a fuller way shows us a fuller way to live, clarifying the way we listen to everything. Ironically, better listening involves a recognition of the absence of time experienced amidst profound silence. After all, the purpose of music is to bring us to silence. “As we listen, we become the silence in which music happens. We disappear.”

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