How We Listen By Aaron Copland

This dissertation examines the ways in which people listen to music and how to make listening a more enjoyable experience. Copland does this by categorizing how we listen into three different planes. Throughout this dissertation he goes from explaining to persuading people to have a more complex way of listening to music. The one major problem that most people have when they listen to music is they tend to listen for the pure joy of it without thinking. How do you listen to music? In the essay “How We Listen” by Aaron Copland he challenges people to be more active listeners and to not only listen but listen for something. The first way we listen is the sensuous plane. It is the more common way of listening. Sensuous listening is only hearing