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The simplest way of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of the musical sound itself. That is the sensuous plane(感官层面). It is the plane on which we hear music without 29 in any way. One turns on the radio while doing something else and absent –mindedly bathes in the 30 .A kind of brainless but 31 state of the mind is caused by the mere sound effect of the music. This 32 to every normal human and is self-evident. The sensuous plane is an important one in music, a very important one, but it does not 33 the whole story.

There is, however, such a thing as becoming more sensitive to the different kinds of sound stuff as used by various composes. The stuff expresses, at different moments, serenity(宁静)or exuberance, regret or triumph, fury or delight. It expresses each of these 34 in a numberless variety of subtle shadings and differences. It may even express a state of meaning for which there exists no 35 world in any language. In that case, 36 often like to say that it has only a purely musical meaning.

While listening, each listener feels for himself the specific expressive quality of a 37 or, similarly, an entire piece of music. And if it is a great work of art, don’t expect it to mean exactly the same thing to you each time you 38 to it.

An intelligent listener must be prepared to increase his awareness of the musical material and what happens to it. He must hear the melodies, the rhythms, the harmonies, the different tones in a more conscious and fashionable way to follow the line of the composer’s 39 . In a sense, an ideal listener is both inside and outside the music at the same moment, wishing it could go one way or another--- almost like the composer at the moment he composes it; 40 in order to write his music, the composer must also be inside and outside his music, 41 by it and yet coldly critical of it and yet coldly critical of it. A subjective attitude is implied in both creating and listening to music.

What the listener should strive for, then is a more active kind of listening. 42 you listen to Mozart or Duke Ellington, you can deepen you understanding of music only by being a more conscious and aware listener--- not someone who is just listening, but someone who is listening for 43

29. A, training B. questioning C. following D. thinking

30. A. sound B. story C. meaning D. situation

31 A. attractive B good C. healthy D. simple

32. A. turns B. Refers C. appeals D. sticks

33. A. go round B. comes into C. get out D. make up

34. A. form B. practice C. moods D. track

35. A. strong B. adequate C. academic D. technical

36. A. listeners B. musicians C. players D. writers

37. A. character B. book C. concert D. theme

38. A. return B. speak C. attend D. see

39. A. instruction B. thought C. advice D. background

40. A. because B. though C. if D. so