Table of Contents

PREFACE

1. The musical experience
2. A word on the Eros/logos binary, or why you should not read this book
3. Music and meditation
   • Basic meditation
   • Group clapping I
   • Group clapping II
   • Finding the center
   • Centering/the flamingo
     
4. Musical interaction: four relationships
   • Passive/Active
   • Triangles
     
5. The musical environment
   • Listening walk
   • Trust walk
   • Interacting
   • Spaces
   • Space interpretation
   • Acoustic exploration
   • Found instruments
     
6. Interpretation: finding your style
   • Comparing
   • Single note
   • Phrasing
   • Research
   • Emotions
     
7. Musical Ensembles
   • Group singing 1
   • Group interpretation
   • Corking
   • Music analysis
   • Giving/receiving direction
     
8. Us and Them: relating to your audience
   • Stage presence
   • Objectivity I
   • Background music
   • Stage presence II
     
9. Stage fright
   • Shadow/persona
     
10. Your instrument
    • Multiinstrumentalism
    • Comparing
    • Practicing vs. Playing
    • Getting to know you
    • Active imagination
      
11. Improvisation
    • Silliness
    • Drumming
    • Atonality
    • The eighth-note pulse
    • Mix and match
    • Tonic/dominant relationship
    • A single note
    • Triads
      
12. Practical applications: music out of silence
    • Onychophagia
    • Three-movement sonata
    • True love
    • Dance Round
    • Excursions
    • Essay questions
    • Corking
    • Noise
    • Jane
    • Cherries
    • Conversation
    • Structuring
      
13. Should musicians get paid?
    • Objectivity II
      
14. Music and drugs
    
15. Bibliography and further reading
16. Discography and further listening
    
    © 1991 Nick Dallett/Acoustic Confusion Music
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