[Smt-talk] Starting Points

[Michael Morse]

The Copland is justly celebrated. Roger Sessions' The Musical Experience of Composer, Performer, and Listener is also great, a little more demanding (and less condescending in that sense) than the Copland.
Frankly, I find the Levitin distasteful There's far too much bragging of his exploits in music, and far too much undeservedly confident positivist hooey. Oliver Sacks is way better on the humility scale, for sure.

MW MorseTrent UniversityPeterborough, Oshawa

Though I haven't read either, perhaps Aaron Copland's "What to listen for in music" or Dan Levitin's "This is your brain on music" would be on target for the nonspecialist interested in classical music or music psychology, respectively.

Yuri Broze
 		 	   		  
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