by Maria Popova - Brain Pickings
The essence of the universal language, distilled.
I’ve been celebrating National Poetry Month with an ongoing series of book spine poetry. Today, a short meditation of a “poem” on music.
The books:
- Music: Ways of Listening by composer Elliott Schwartz, the source of this fantastic vintage guide to the 7 essential skills for listening to music
- Stylized by Mark Garvey, who tells the “slightly obsessive” story of Strunk and White’s iconic The Elements of Style
- Persuasion, the recent annotated edition of the Jane Austen classic