Music of Heartohopia

By George Trier

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972518401
• ISBN13: 9780972518406
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Heartohopia Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"
• Age Range: 9 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

Discovering Our Music Nature

The student, amateur, professional musician,or just anyone who loves music will find here one of the most unusual books about the way we experience music. It is already revolutionizing the way I think about music and my own "music nature." It may do the same for you. Not just a book about musical dynamics, but the incredible possibility that 100 piano and 100 forte already exist within us and activate when we take in the rest sign first, the indicator of the silence from which all music rises. Whether we are players or listeners, attention to this causes us to rediscover in ourselves, what makes music, not just the playing of notes (as the original printers who standardized the printing of music would have us do). If Onaip Springwell is the author of the love-letters, lectures, essays, and poems here, he is also the author of his own novel, the radical departure this book is from the novel as a long prose narrative. Onaip's infectious humor and incisive imagination invite us, thereby,to open his pages at any section and read what at all levels is calculated to stimulate us out of our old concert-hall complacency to learn why we are really there. Even Onaip's takeoffs on the Zen Master redirect us to something we've been missing, the sheer joy in music that belongs to all of us. I say a reader can't get into this book fast enough.

There are "page-turner" books... Here is " Life-turner"

It is a totally unique book. It is like a treasure-chest filled with Faberge eggs, Eggs of Knowledge. From the first to the last page it constantly challenges, provokes and inspires us to hear, to see and to find Music, Music of Our Nature in our daily life. It is a spiritual adventure in interplay with practical, self-development steps. I only wish some of the material could have more explanation, but may be here is the entire idea of this book- to let us discover,experience and taste the worldof Heart of Hope with our own mind, heart and spirit.