The Importance Of Listening And Deep Listening

Writer and composer, Aaron Copland, in his book, “How We Listen,” divides listening into three planes: the sensuous, the expressive and the sheerly musical. Copland argues throughout the work that “[listeners] can deepen [their] understanding of music only by being a more conscious and aware listener.” (Copland, 15) Copland’s strategy of breaking the text up with the three planes of listening helps the reader understand his message in a more complete way.

Listening is ‘Not an attempt to understand something that is being said’ but ‘Just an attention to the activity of sounds’

In “How We Listen To Music” Aaron Copeland describes the three components to which we all listen to music. We listen to music in a sensuous way, a expressive way, and a musical way. We listen to music with a combination of all these components, but don’t even realize we listen with these components. Splitting up these components shows us a view that we've never seen of the ways that we listen to music without knowing. Everyone who listens to music listens to a different combination of these components. I have my own mixture of components when I listen to music depending on when I am listening to music.

In his essay “How We Listen,” Aaron Copland classifies and divides the listening process into three parts: “the sensuous place, the expressive plane, and the sheerly musical plane” (1074). I believe by this mechanical separation, Copland succeeds in discussing difficult topic, so natural that most people tend to by pass it. He uses analogy and sometimes stresses on certain situation where these planes are abused or become a cause of a problem. The main purpose for Copland to separate the listening process is for the reader to learn and study how they listen. Copland’s success in the clarification mainly because of two methods: (1) Categorizing the listening process in different parts and use an analogy to unite it to

Each day I listen to hundreds of different conversations, songs, and lectures. While I listen, I have also realized that I encounter a lot of other noise around me. Listening begins the moment I wake up, and it does not end until the moment I go to sleep. While doing this listening log, I learned a lot about how I listen and why I listen.

Upon exploring the four different personal listening styles from which we had to choose, I was surprised to realize that I am considered a people-oriented and content-oriented listener. Another listening style which scored within close range of the aforementioned results was that of time-oriented listening. These results were

After analyzing my results for the Student Listening Inventory the interpretation of my score showed that I perceive myself to be a good listener in the classroom, but I can still improve my listening skills. I agree with the results from this inventory and found it very insightful when identifying my strengths and weaknesses.

Treasure opens his discussion with providing the fact that we listen 60 percent of the time and despite that we listen more then half the time, we only obtain 25 percents of the information that we hear. part of the reason why we struggle on auditory retention is that there is more noise pollution, as wells as visual pollution that we are unaware of that we subconsciously filter. Some of these filters can be language, culture, and values.

Active listening is listening with a purpose. It is more than just hearing which the act of perceiving sound is. When you hear a sound or noise, you are receiving aural stimuli. Listening goes beyond just registering that there is a sound in the environment. It involves receiving and interpreting the aural stimuli, and creating meaning from the sound.

Listening is often confused with hearing. This serious misconception can lead us to believe that good listening is instinctive. In fact, good listening is an active, sophisticated process – a learned behavior – that demands focus and attention. Listening takes place on

What is active listening, it the process of information, which uses all of our senses to convey a message through perceiving of sound? Our, hearing, smell, taste and touch are part of our senses that we sometimes use without knowing we are doing it. Moreover, listening correctly, can be a crucial part of encoding and decoding the message, for clarification and understanding what the message is conveying. While deciphering messages, you get a sense of understanding what the message is trying to express. Next, is trying to remember or recall what the message is so that you can retain it. Also, evaluating what you hear and decoded or deciphered it is essential to understanding what the message is. When we actively listen, there is some paraphrasing during this process, where you have to restate the information given by the speaker into your own words. Lastly, responding to the message with an answer, it could be for learning purposes, personal, enjoyment or even employment, it is important to listen to ensure understanding actively. As we respond, there is an answer and feedback given (DeVito 2016) as a response.

Listening requires silence. Neutrally speaking, the silent and listening individual is passively learner and an active thinker. Listening comprehension establishes a systematic viewpoint in human mind making it to learn the rhythm of the words, statements, sentences, phrases, thoughts and ideas. It is a requisite to learn about the classification of Stressed and unstressed words.

Listening is more complex, and it encourages one to analyze and think about an idea, rather than to simply accept it (or “hear” it). Hearing is a skill that is beneficial for every aspect of life. As long as we have our ability to hear, we will always perceive different sounds, music, and voices. Listening, however, is beneficial to us in specific instances. It is important for us to attain good listening skills in education, the work force, and in our relationships with others in order to succeed. Good listening in education will bring about confident participation in class discussions; good listening in the workplace will lead to cooperation and good teamwork among colleagues; good listening in relationships is healthy and positive, for it is important to hear what an individual has to say in order to know how they feel.

Active listening is an attentive and interactive form of listening. One of the primary objectives of active listening is establishing and achieving empathy among all parties engaged in communication together. The words a person uses during communication are important, yet active listening includes listening to a person's words as well as interpreting and intuiting what a person feels and thinks. Active listening is a highly engaging activity. Active listening requires the person doing the listening to have a very keen awareness of all aspects of the communication. Active listening then is a sensory activity that challenges the listener to see, hear, sense, perceive, understand, feel, empathize, and reciprocate.

Listening is an important form of communication. Unfortunately, many people who do not know how to listen believe they can listen well. They often say "I have been doing this all of my life of course I can listen". Listening is not inherited, or a personality trait, it is a skill that must be worked on and practiced.