For the Love of It

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ISBN: 9780226065717

Contents
Acknowledgments
Overture: What Is an Amateur—And Why Amateuring Matters
First Movement: The Courtship
1 : Getting It into My Bones
2 : Seduced by the Cello
3 : Amateuring and Rival Pleasures
Second Movement: The Marriage
4 : The Zen of Thumb Position Maintenance
5 : Teaching the Love
6 : Meditations of an Aging Pupil
Interlude: The Amateur Writer Quarrels with the Amateur Player
Third Movement: The Love Fulfilled
7 : Amateur Hours: Disastrous, Not Too Bad, and Just Plain Glorious
8 : Hearing with Your Body: How Playing Transforms Listening
9 : The Three Gifts
Fourth Movement: Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony
10 : "Making It," Selling Out, and the Future of Amateuring
11 : The Music of the Spheres—But What Spheres?
Glossary
Bibliography
Index