The Way of Music : Aural Training for the Internet Generation

the slow movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Drawing on Robin Maconie's earlier work, The Second Sense: Language Music and Hearing (2002), The Way of Music presents many of the same insights in highly encapsulated form for readers in the text message age, taking the discussion of classical music out of music departments and returning it to a broader public and educational arena.Student Observations:"You learn logic, reason, and a sort of sensitivity to the passage of time from listening to classical music.""Music, when one is trained to listen, helps to improve your senses. Your sense of hearing is heightened; you become more alert, because you are concentrating on many different instruments and sounds simultaneously.""Music reaches beyond the improvement of academic performance to a realm of improvement of the human condition." [Publisher's text]