How to Listen to Music, by Henry E. Krehbiel, Part 1
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 25 January 2021
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Summary
Tonight, we fall into the rhythm of sleep with a book that works hard to put meaning into music but mostly just makes it boring. So...kind of perfect, really?
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get |
| 0:17.6 | some sleep. |
| 0:20.0 | So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go. |
| 0:36.9 | Before we begin tonight's reading, I'd like to welcome some new members to our Patreon family. |
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| 1:37.0 | Now let's get to the reading. Tonight we're relaxing with a work suggested by one of your fellow listeners, |
| 1:42.0 | How to Listen to music, hints and suggestions to untaught lovers of the art by Henry Edward Kreeble, author of studies in the Wagnerian drama, |
| 1:56.9 | Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music, |
| 2:00.7 | The Philharmonic Society of New York, etc. |
| 2:05.0 | Copyright 1896 by Charles Scribner's Sons New York. |
| 2:12.0 | Let's begin. To WJ Henderson, who has helped me to respect musical criticism. Respect Musical Criticism. |
| 2:24.8 | Chapter 1 Introduction This book has a purpose which is as simple as it is plain, and an unpretentious scope. |
| 2:36.9 | It does not aim to edify either the musical professor or the musical scholar. It comes into the presence of the musical student with all becoming |
| 2:48.6 | modesty. Its business is with those who love music and present themselves for its gracious |
| 2:57.1 | Ministries in concert room and opera house, but have not studied it as professors and scholars are supposed study. |
| 3:08.7 | It is not for the careless unless they be willing to inquire whether it might not be well to yield the common |
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