The Practice--Raising Consciousness with Classical Music
Orpheus, Wikipedia I'm including another excerpt from my book Whole Music (Soul Food for the Mind Body Spirit) . If you are an agent or book publisher interested in this title, please contact me at wholemusicexp at gmail dot com. This exercise comes from the end of Chapter 8. The Practice--The Art of Listening The first music appreciation class I took in college featured classical music. While you could do the following practice with any genre of music, for this session, I ask you to choose one piece of music by a single composer from baroque to contemporary classical music. For example, you could choose a cello suite by J.S. Bach which would land you in the heart of the baroque period or you could choose Appalachian Spring by contemporary American composer Aaron Copland. For one week, listen to only listen to this piece of music. You can listen to the music via headphones or play it within the ambiance of a room. Listen for changes in key, rhythm