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About yesterday: my ability to listen to music has atrophied. I tried to listen intently, without stray thoughts, and for several pieces yesterday couldn't do that for more than a few seconds at a time. Some of this music was hard for me to get a grasp of -- unfamiliar, structure obscure -- but just now I listened to a track on a CD of mine, and had similar trouble. I used to be better at this. Well, no wonder, I used to spend more time at this, listening to music, as opposed to having it on while doing something else.

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[mh75.livejournal.com]

Yes, i feel like i don't spend enough time listening to music myself.

Still, maybe you were just distracted? Sometimes mood can affect my ability to sit still and concentrate.

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

I wish I were better able to listen to music. When we go to symphony concerts, I often find my mind wandering, and I have trouble grasping the structure of a piece. I wish I could listen well enough to notice the transition from one movement to another, for example.

[eub.livejournal.com]

For that concert, it could be. But it triggered the noticing that I just don't do that anymore anything like I used to. Some people are highly absorbed readers; I never was, but I was for music after I discovered music.

[eub.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one of these years I have to train myself to hear harmonic structure.