For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals

Name: For the Love of It Amateuring and Its Rivals
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ISBN: 9780226065861

ISBN-10: 0226065863

ISBN-13: 9780226065861

Edition: 2000

Authors: Wayne C. Booth

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.69" wide x 8.94" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Overture: What Is an Amateur-And


Why Amateuring Matters First Movement: The Courtship



Getting It into My Bones



Seduced by the Cello



Amateuring and Rival Pleasures Second Movement: The Marriage



The Zen of Thumb Position Maintenance



Teaching the Love



Meditations of an Aging Pupil Interlude: The Amateur Writer Quarrels with the Amateur Player Third Movement: The Love Fulfilled



Amateur Hours: Disastrous, Not Too Bad, and Just Plain Glorious



Hearing with Your Body: How Playing Transforms Listening



The Three Gifts Fourth Movement: Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony



"Making It," Selling Out, and the Future of Amateuring



The Music of the Spheres-But What Spheres?


Glossary


Bibliography


Index