What to Listen for in Music Author:Aaron Copland Taken from the forward as written by Alan Rich "Aaron Copland .... being recognized as the first genuinely American composer ... has produced a small but immensely valuable book, a compilation of lectures he had gven at Manhattan's New School for Social Research under the title 'What to Listen for in Music', not the first attempt to translate th... more »e experience of classical music into words but - as hordes of enthusiastic readers soon recognized - surely the first such attempt from the inside, the first to express the way someone actually involved in creating music regards the artistic world around him."
And from the Introduction by William Schuman: "why would one of our great composers take time from composing to write a primer on music? The answer is simple. Lestening to music is a skill that is acquired through experince and learning. Knowledge enhances the enjoyment."« less