“Draper’s love for music is contagious. She provides a useful set of listening exercises, or music breaks, at the end of each chapter, as well as an extensive ‘listening bibliography’ for enhancing every aspect of life, from work to sex.”—Publishers Weekly
“A lovely, lyrical, elegantly useful guide for all of us, healthy or ill, who want to reap full benefit from the wonderful world of music.”—Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D., Chief, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
“Mystics say that we are music, and poems are rough notations for that music. This book will send you back to the music you love.”—Coleman Barks, poet and translator of The Essential Rumi
The Nature of MusicIntroduction
One: The Heart of Listening
Music and the Arts
The Language of Music
Listening to Music, Listening to Yourself
The Physical Power of Music
Two: Hearing the Design
Thematic Seeds
Circular Forms
The Enduring Power of the Mass
Yesterday’s Dissonance Is Today’s Consonance
Three: The Education of Feeling
Ways of Listening
Tonality: The Homing Instinct
Four: When You Are the Music
Your Unlived Life
Bach: The Passionate Mind
Beethoven: A Guide to Spiritual Evolution
Praise and Prayer
Five: Singing Your Own Song
Toning, Singing Bowls, and Chant
Strike the Harp or Join the Chorus
Six: The Alchemy of Music
Earth
Water
Air
Fire
Composing Your Life
A Musical Day
Seven: The Healing Power of Music
Anger, Catharsis and Transformation
How Music Heals
Music for the Hospital
Eight: Dreaming and Dancing
Dreaming by Day
Dancing in the Dark
Nine: The Inner Garden
The Education of the Heart
Schumann and Brahms: Eros and the Artist
The Garden of Love
Mozart: The Divine Child
Sound Journey: A Listening Bibliography
Musical Terms
Endnotes
Bibliography
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