Music
“It is probably impossible to say where music stops and the rest of the world begins, if there is a rest of the world. Music is a noun like 'love' or 'sanity,' with a hard core and fuzzy boundaries. Some people hear music in a waterfall, others tell their kids to turn down the noise. Yet whatever music is, most everyone has a personal, often intimate relationship with it.”—W. A. Mathieu, Bridge of Waves
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Bridge of Waves
What Music Is and How Listening to It Changes the World
Music is, in one sense, merely a series of fleeting vibrations that arise and subside. How could it be that something so insubstantial fills us, and calms us, and makes us weep? Because, says W. A. Mathieu, music bridges mind and heart, self and other, and affirms our place in the world. Everyone uses the bridge of music, from casual listeners to devoted professionals. Mathieu's delightful and trenchant prose asks… Read More
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The Musical Life
Reflections on What It Is and How to Live It
Everyone, according to W.A. Mathieu, is musical by nature—it goes right along with being human. And if you don't believe it, this book will convince you. In a series of interrelated short essays, Mathieu takes the reader on a journey through ordinary experiences to open our ears to the rich variety of music that surrounds us but that we are trained to ignore; such as the variety of pitches produced… Read More
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The Mysticism of Sound and Music
Revised Edition
Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West, was an accomplished musician himself. His lucid exposition of music's divine nature has become a modern classic, beloved not… Read More
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