| Did you know you could increase your enjoyment, | | | | For you to listen to instrumental music and find |
| produce intense pleasure, and develop a love, an | | | | enjoyment you must understand its key parts: the |
| interest for instrumental music? It is true. You only | | | | composer, the performer, and the listener. The |
| have to know how to listen. | | | | composer is the great mind. The performer is the |
| Instrumental music has a definition: sounds organized | | | | immense talent. The listener is you. The music is at |
| and intellectually placed, intended to produce an | | | | your mercy, you are its critic, its executioner, its |
| emotional response from the listener. | | | | exaltation. You are why it exists. If a tree falls in the |
| A well know American composer and music | | | | forest and no one is there to hear it, does it exist? |
| administrator, William Schuman, says, "Listening to | | | | Of course, but to whom? |
| music is a skill that is acquired through experience and | | | | Widen your exposure to instrumental music. Do not |
| learning. Knowledge enhances enjoyment." Listening is | | | | limit yourself. Listen to the past. Listen to the |
| a skill, a craft that needs, desires, and wants to be | | | | present. Listen to different cultures, different genres, |
| developed. It produces knowledge. In the case of | | | | different tempos and beats. Set no limits. |
| music: knowledge of music. You will receive more | | | | Keep technicalities at bay. Do not get caught up in |
| pleasure from music as you listen and increase your | | | | the details. It is simply not important how many |
| knowledge of it. By being an active listener, you will | | | | vibrations a note produces. There is no value as a |
| learn the craft of music composition. | | | | listener to know such technicalities. They are |
| Pay attention, be an active listener. Play your favorite | | | | obstacles that keep you from active listening, from |
| music instrumental. Are you listening? Are you paying | | | | enjoying yourself. It is more important, more |
| attention to everything going on? Are you being | | | | enjoyable, to be sensitive to the music's tones, its |
| sensitive, open, and honest about how the music | | | | vibrations. Become conscious and wide-awake. It is |
| makes you feel, think, and listen? | | | | the only true way to listen to instrumental music. |