Listening Tips: Modern and Contemporary Music

We finish our series on era-specific listening tips by exploring the most challenging and diverse sub-genre of classical music, Modern/Contemporary music! Modern music often proves to be especially challenging for new listeners, and can be a big turn-off at classical concerts, but we are here to give you five tips that will help to better understand and appreciate listening to music from this fantastic era! Tip 1: Listen with an open mind (4:06) Tip 2: Appreciating the tonality-atonality spectrum (8:00) Tip 3: Hearing rhythmic figures and gestures (18:48) Tip 4: Noticing different sound qualities and colors (24:28) Tip 5: Asking yourself philosophical, abstract questions that are provoked by the music (30:18) Remember to rate, subscribe, and leave a comment! www.attentiontodetailpod.com