Discovering Music: 4th Edition by McKinney/Anderson (Vintage 1962, Hardcover)

Description: Discovering Music: 4th Edition by McKinney/Anderson (Vintage 1962, Hardcover). This book is in very good condition, the spine does have a little twist to it but as you can see it will stand on its own. Please see the photos for condition, the photos are the actual book you will receive. Thank you! This book has been written with a double purpose: (1) to guide the uninitiated traveler who would embark upon a journey into the complex land of music; and (2) to be a Good Companion to those who, having already set sail, have made some discoveries for themselves and are eager to shape their course towards wider worlds. The ability to "listen" " to music rather than merely to "hear" it is not, as such, a natural capacity, but one that has to be acquired and developed by active, continual, and highly pleasurable observation. The power to cultivate this listening skill varies as does any other human accomplishment, but no cultivation is possible without guidance. The principles used in the preparation of this guidebook have been shaped out of extended experience rather than fashioned out of theories. We believe that the greatest incentive for embarking upon voyages of artistic discovery should be the pleasure that one can derive from them. Housman has said that the nature of such arts as poetry and music is more physical than intellectual; it is the sense of delight that can be obtained from reading a poem, or looking at a picture, or listening to good music that attracts and holds us. It is this yielding of delight that will lead us on in a search for other wonders. Art educates in the proportion that it gives pleasure. We have shaped our treatment along sound pedagogical lines, and have proceeded from the known to the unknown; it will be found that we have placed the points of departure in familiar and interesting territory.

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