The Secret Of Music : A Look At The Listening Life

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."

Author: Joshua McGuire

Publisher: Shanti Arts Llc

Publication Date: Feb 12, 2019

Number of Pages: 112 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 194706777X

ISBN-13: 9781947067776