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Awaken Your Life to the Transforming Power of Music

Communing With Music

Practicing the Art of Conscious Listening

Matthew Cantello

0875167926 | 9780875167923 Trade Paperback: 180 pages | August 15 2004 | $15.95
Subject: Self-Help / Creativity / Music

From a listener’s standpoint, without a trained ear, the pleasure attained from music is based solely on personal preference and taste in terms what sounds “good” or feels gratifying and stirs the soul. Author Matthew Cantello believes the inherent value of music offers an even greater benefit to the listener – the power to heal and transform your life.

To enhance the listener’s relationship with music, rather than focusing on composition and performance, COMMUNING WITH MUSIC teaches the listener how to experience music with a new focus and intensity. Through various contemplative techniques such as meditation, visualization, and expressive movement, readers discover how to consciously bring about healing, serenity, vitality and spiritual awakening through the exquisite energy within music.

DON CAMPBELL, musician and author of The Mozart Effect: "COMMUNING WITH MUSIC provides us with insight, inspiration and wisdom. Matthew Cantello leads the field of listening with creative and practical designs for awakening the mind and body with music. This book provides valuable new tools for orchestrating your own awareness and health."

JOSHUA LEEDS, author of The Power of Sound: "Matthew Cantello provides wonderful information and extensive resources to help create our own sonic apothecaries - where music is an ally and conscious listening brings great benefit to the body, mind, heart, and spirit."

AARON JAY KERNIS- composer and winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in Music:"A beautifully written, poetic guide to quieting the mind by listening deeply to music."

As the author writes: “One of the most significant insights gained in the course of my explorations was the vital role of receptivity. Eventually, it dawned on me that what I was essentially attempting to do was “commune” with the power and beauty of musical sound, as one might commune with a loved one, or the wonders of the natural world. Yet in time I also became aware that I was ultimately communing with much more than “music” per say. I began to see how uniting with the energy of music was essentially a vehicle for connecting with the spirit of the universe itself; a portal through which I could uncover my true nature.”

About the Author: Matthew Cantello
Matthew Cantello is a gifted music instructor, instrumentalist and composer with over 20 years experience teaching, performing, and “communing” with music in various capacities. He studied at The Crane School of Music and later founded “Ecstatic Arts, Inc.” - a nonprofit organization in New York dedicated to promoting the healing potential of music through workshops and performances.

Communing With Music 0875167926 | 9780875167923 Trade Paperback: 180 pages | $15.95