{"product_id":"nature-of-music-isbn-9781573228985","title":"Nature of Music","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn important book that answers how music affects your mood and how music affects your brain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMusic has a profound influence on our lives; affecting how we think, how we act, how we feel-even who we are. By learning more about the intimate relationship between music and ourselves, we can begin to harness that power and better our lives. A classical pianist, Draper writes about the ways in which the great works of the classical canon can help us cope with grief, give dimension to the mysteries of beauty and faith, aid us in recovery from illness, inspire us to create, or just give us a boost of energy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis unique guide includes an extensive music bibliography with selections to suit moods, calm nerves, inspire, and heal. Anyone from the novice to the aficionado will find new ways to hear music as they never have before.The Nature of MusicIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOne: The Heart of Listening\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Music and the Arts\u003cbr\u003e The Language of Music\u003cbr\u003e Listening to Music, Listening to Yourself\u003cbr\u003e The Physical Power of Music\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo: Hearing the Design \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Thematic Seeds\u003cbr\u003e Circular Forms\u003cbr\u003e The Enduring Power of the Mass\u003cbr\u003e Yesterday's Dissonance Is Today's Consonance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree: The Education of Feeling \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ways of Listening\u003cbr\u003e Tonality: The Homing Instinct\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFour: When You Are the Music \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Your Unlived Life\u003cbr\u003e Bach: The Passionate Mind\u003cbr\u003e Beethoven: A Guide to Spiritual Evolution\u003cbr\u003e Praise and Prayer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFive: Singing Your Own Song \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Toning, Singing Bowls, and Chant\u003cbr\u003e Strike the Harp or Join the Chorus\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix: The Alchemy of Music \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Earth\u003cbr\u003e Water\u003cbr\u003e Air\u003cbr\u003e Fire\u003cbr\u003e Composing Your Life\u003cbr\u003e A Musical Day\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven: The Healing Power of Music \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anger, Catharsis and Transformation\u003cbr\u003e How Music Heals\u003cbr\u003e Music for the Hospital\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEight: Dreaming and Dancing \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Dreaming by Day\u003cbr\u003e Dancing in the Dark\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNine: The Inner Garden \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Education of the Heart\u003cbr\u003e Schumann and Brahms: Eros and the Artist\u003cbr\u003e The Garden of Love\u003cbr\u003e Mozart: The Divine Child\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSound Journey: A Listening Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Musical Terms\u003cbr\u003e Endnotes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e About Companion CDs\u003c\/p\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Barrie R. Cassileth, Ph.D., Chief, Integrative Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.”\u003cb\u003e—Coleman Barks, poet and translator of The Essential Rumi \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaureen McCarthy Draper\u003c\/b\u003e, a classical pianist and music teacher, presents music retreats for the Guild for Psychological Studies both in San Francisco and from her home in the Santa Cruz mountains, using live music, poetry, and art. \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Music\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301638164709,"sku":"NP9781573228985","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781573228985.jpg?v=1767733582","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/nature-of-music-isbn-9781573228985","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}