Some (More) Lessons



  • Individuals are able to approach the listening experience using different modes.

  • Some of the modes can be evoked by conscious intent.

  • Some modes may be evoked by the listening experience itself.

  • Some ways of listening are probably innate, and will require special efforts to over-come.

  • Cultural familiarity conditions our listening experience.

  • Listeners are not entirely out-to-lunch when listening to the music of other cultures.

  • Explicit learning is not always necessary for certain forms of listening (e.g. types of rhetorical passages).

  • Listeners tend to day-dream. But there is lots of untapped cognitive bandwidth to exploit.