Reviews for Sound and silence

The average rating for Sound and silence based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-10-10 00:00:00 Cheryl Willis Published in 1970, my hopes for this book were not high. But like the 1960s itself, this book is full of surprises. The agitations to popular music in the sixties had a powerful and potent impact on this book. Categories were in flux. Noise, sound and silence were explored in a productive way. Most significantly, high theory was carefully woven through classroom examples. This book - right now - could provide a matrix of opportunities and options for current classroom teachers and music researchers. The challenge is why music education researchers have not surpassed this 1970 book. This book is a triumph.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-18 00:00:00 Chuck Ivy I do not know if David is left handed or not, let alone dyslexic, but I found that these two paragraphs of his own review, resounded with my own perspective of this book ... "Essays for the Left Hand," takes the left hand as a metaphor for aspects of living that are intuitive, [un]conscious, and difficult to analyze and therefore control'such as creativity, early learning, myth, and the idea of fate. It is a collection of essays from different times of the author's life and development that, he writes in the introduction, he has edited somewhat to give them more thematic integrity. What I liked about On Knowing was exactly what I liked about the quote that drew me to the book: almost every sentence is pithy, erudite and with an "enlightening" glow. In terms of content, it's interesting in as far as it looks at what makes us modern. Although written in the 1960s, nearly everything that characterizes humankind in the 21st century was already worked out, so the fact that it is already 50-plus years old has little effect on its relevance." Creativity - for an approaching three score years and ten, left handed dyslexic, whose propensity for mirror writing was 'corrected' by nuns at St. John's Primary School in the Archway, North London; as a result of being taught to write correctly with an Osmiroid 65 pen fitted with a left-handed italic nib - has forever been the driving force of my life. From my own particular perspective, however, the best review of Jerome Bruner's book, which addresses many of the points which David has made, has been written by Maria Popova. Entitled "How to Master the Art of "Effective Surprise" and the 6 Essential Conditions for Creativity", the piece can be found at her most revealing 'brain pickings' website.