Here they are:
I. Listening comes from concentration.
II. When listening to great music it must be with reverence as well
as with attention.
III. We must listen for ideals.
IV. We must listen in order to be self-critical.
V. Constant listening to true music reveals that there is never a
tone used unless it has a meaning.
And besides all this we must think that among those who listen to us
there may be some one who has learned this careful concentrated way.
Then we shall have it ever in mind to "play as if in the presence of a
master."[20]
CHAPTER VI.
THINKING IN TONE.
"The gods for labor sell us all good things."--_Epicharmus_.[21]
Perhaps you have some doubt as to exactly what is meant by
music-thinking. Being somewhat acquainted with composers and with
music, the thought may here come to you that all the music we hear in
the world must have been made by somebody--by many somebodies, in
fact. They have had to sit down, and forgetting all things else,
listen intently to the music-thought which fills the mind. If you will
sit quietly by yourself you will discover that you can easily think
words and sentences and really hear them in the mind without
pronouncing anything. In quite the same way the composer sits and
hears music, tone by tone, and as clearly as if it were played by a
piano or an orchestra.
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