The Listening Book Discovering Your Own Music

The Listening Book is about rediscovering the power of listening as an instrument of self-discovery and personal transformation. By exploring our capacity for listening to sounds and for making music, we can awaken and release our full creative powers. Mathieu offers suggestions and encouragement on many aspects of music-making, and provides playful exercises to help readers appreciate the connection between sound, music, and everyday life.

W. A. Mathieu is a composer, pianist, and teacher whose career as a musician spans five decades. He is a best-selling recording artist whose music can be heard on various labels, including his own Gold Mountain Music. He is also the author of Bridge of Waves, The Musical Life, and Harmonic Experience.

Introduction	p. xi
Listening
Chop Chop Phoooah	p. 3
The Way the Eyes Are with the Ears	p. 5
The Sound Horizon	p. 6
Listening to Animals	p. 7
Symphonies of Place	p. 9
Protect Your Ears	p. 13
Preparing a Sound Space	p. 17
Focusing	p. 19
Music at a Distance	p. 20
Unlistening	p. 21
Listening to People	p. 24
The More You Listen	p. 26
Twenty Sounds to Get Lost In	p. 27
Special Radio Trick	p. 29
Easy-to-Miss Music	p. 31
Hand and Glove	p. 33
Listening to Music	p. 34
Dreamed Music	p. 38
Listening to a String	p. 39
Joining in
Resonance	p. 43
Walking	p. 46
Singing with Machines	p. 49
Now Time	p. 52
Life Drummer	p. 55
Dinner Symphony at the Sillses'	p. 59
Gibberish	p. 61
Say Wind	p. 63
Chanting	p. 66
Willing Silence	p. 69
Practicing
Finding Your Own Music	p. 73
One Note after Another	p. 75
Telephoning Counts	p. 78
The Ace of Practice	p. 80
Cosmic Practice	p. 82
Ima Dork	p. 83
In Meter	p. 85
Disabusable Notions	p. 88
The Best Excuses	p. 90
Mistakes	p. 92
Wandering Mind	p. 93
No One Can Tell You	p. 94
What Should I Practice?	p. 95
Technique and the Eraser Trick	p. 97
Electronic Instruments	p. 98
Deep Pantry	p. 100
Lentus Celer Est	p. 101
Names	p. 102
Chariot of Words	p. 104
There's Not Much to Learn and It Takes Forever	p. 105
Dr. Overtone's Promise	p. 106
Originality	p. 107
The Sound Connection
Finding a Teacher	p. 113
Fear of Music	p. 117
Hearing through Other Ears	p. 120
Most Perfect Music	p. 121
The Circle of Listening	p. 123
Inner and Outer	p. 125
Age Matters	p. 127
Tone-Deaf Choir	p. 128
Practices
Singing Unison with a String	p. 137
Just Any Note?	p. 141
As Much as Possible from as Little as Possible	p. 143
Touch What You Sing	p. 153
Steps/Leaps	p. 157
The Tyranny of Triads	p. 159
The Art of Returning	p. 161
Juice between Textures	p. 163
Play by the Clock	p. 164
Just the News	p. 165
The Magic Scale	p. 166
Big Ears	p. 173
Notes	p. 178
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The Listening Book Discovering Your Own Music

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