Hearing Music- A Guide To Music Appreciation
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A GUIDE TO MUSIC APPRECIATION by THEODORE M. FINNEY. PREFACE: MUSIC is the universal language. This quotation, perhaps more often than any other, is used whenever the occasion seems to demand that something important be said about music. It is almost always used with the implication that the universality of music nullifies the necessity of learning music as a language. This implication is false. Music, in the sense that it is a language, must be learned just as any other lan guage must be learned. It is true that some individuals learn languages more easily than others; it is true, too, that most of us have forgotten how we learned enough of our mother tongue to use it for communication. But it must not be forgotten that we do learn even our mother tongue. We study it formally as long as we attend school, and most of us never master its use to the point where we are independent of such aids as the dic tionary. The problem of learning is even more evident in connection with mastering a foreign language. The difficul ties of grammar and syntax, to say nothing of the necessity for constant reference to a glossary, make the process of learning a new language a poignant illustration of the diffi culties which the necessity for communication presents to the learner. For the ordinary person who wishes to understand music, its language stands somewhere between the mother tongue and a foreign language. He has been conditioned to its sound because he has been hearing it most of his life. But he fails to comprehend much that he might hear because he has not learned to understand. The traveler abroad who does his shopping and eating only in the places which display the sign, English Spoken Here has much in common with the person whose tired reaction to a symphony concert is: Never again. Both result from failure to have learned to under stand a language. This book is the result of some years spent in the attempt to help learners to understand music. Its fundamental prem ise
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