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Article: Communing with Music: Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening.(Book Review)
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- American Music Teacher
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- April 1, 2005
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Communing with Music: Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening, by Matthew Cantello. DeVross Publications (DeVross & Company (553 Constitution Ave., Camarillo, CA 93012), 2004. 180 pp. $15.95.
In the hours and days following my mother's death decades ago, I remember being startled by passages of music playing in my head over and over--from the second movement of Brahm's Third Symphony. It took me a while to figure out that was how one part of myself helped another part to cope and, ultimately, heal. I should not have been so surprised, because, in retrospect, it was not the first time I had used music as part of my personal restorative process.
Matthew ...