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How Listening Affects Us

Season 1 Episode 105 | 26m 50s

Open-mindedness and flexible thinking as prerequisites are explored using visual puzzles and musical examples. Handel's fugue from his Concerto Grosso, Op.6, No. 7 reinforces flexible listening. Effective surprise in music is presented using Bela Bartok's For Children Vol. II, No. 12 for piano. The 3rd movement of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 is used to demonstrate tension and release.

Aired: 04/10/22 | Expires: 07/29/22
Distributed nationally by American Public Television
Extras
Listening versus hearing and the process of noticing detail in music.
The audience is encouraged to grasp larger chunks or "paragraphs" of musical information.
Concepts presented in the previous six episodes are revisited in this "new" context.
Maestro George Marriner Maull reviews musical elements covered in previous episodes.
What factors predispose people not to listen? With an opportunity for guided listening.
Viewers are asked to think about the most basic ingredients of music.
Elements or basic ingredients of music are defined.
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Listening versus hearing and the process of noticing detail in music.
The audience is encouraged to grasp larger chunks or "paragraphs" of musical information.
Concepts presented in the previous six episodes are revisited in this "new" context.
Maestro George Marriner Maull reviews musical elements covered in previous episodes.
What factors predispose people not to listen? With an opportunity for guided listening.
Viewers are asked to think about the most basic ingredients of music.
Elements or basic ingredients of music are defined.