The core idea is to explore the emotional dimension of songs and pieces of music by putting together a judicious sequence of personal narratives related to hearing or performing the work in focus.

By the way, this book could perhaps be described as the result of my own personal quest. For many years now, I have built my research and writing on a very simple statement of purpose—which I repeat, almost as a mantra, on every possible occasion, in print or public lectures: Music is a source of enchantment and a catalyst in human life , and my... See more