The rich purring followed the rhyme of the poems, and ever since then, when I hear Robert read, I listen, with
the mind's ear, to a feline accompaniment, ranging from the softest of purrs to the lion's roar.
A few notes on Robert Duncan
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The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners, by Bruce Adolphe.
The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners
White, Cynthia Ozick--have mastered the technique of making the reader an auditor--mulling over, underlining, and annotating a text on the printed page that is simultaneously heard in
the mind's ear. The best personal essayists--and Lopate is among them--admit the reader into an egalitarian living room--not an elitist salon--where they enjoy a conversation involving the eye, the ear, and the mind.
Phillip Lopate. To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
An inability to tune up one's voice by first imagining music in
the mind's ear can also instigate karaoke catastrophes.
The tune wreckers: lousy singers make a pitch for scientific relevance
The heavenly tinnitus and the sweet echoes of every anthemic song were present in
the mind's ear of the girl as the dazzling headlights of the approaching taxi hurt her eyeballs.
TALES FROM THE PAST
It's one of those expressions that fix themselves in
the mind's ear."
In your mind's ear
Certainly Walton's pithy oratorio Belshazzar's Feast has lived with me, both in
the mind's ear and through many performances, ever since I first fell in love with it nearly fifty years ago, when it was still practically contemporary music.
Young voices bring charm; CLASSICAL REVIEWS
of
the mind's ear at waking, words smaller than lightning
Like A Fire From Which Sparks Emitted Do Fly Upwards
The chapter on bells, for example, examines the "cultural range of sound along varying neural pathways in
the mind's ear" (my emphasis, 99), while the chapter on "Shakespeare's Wills" examines the social and obligatory skepticism associated with the interpretation of texts.
Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama
Citing a great quoter like Randall Jarrell, Bromwich emphasizes the line as the unit of modern poetry and, in his quoting of lines that 'have captivated
the mind's ear', he is the equal of critics like Jarrell or David Kalstone.
Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry
My grandmother's speech was much less Black Country, but once again
the mind's ear has been imprinted with only one utterance.
To curf and thrash, and vex and dash
'I've got to get off this table,' said the clear voice of the visitor in
the mind's ear of the little girl.
Little man; Flash back Tom Slemen TALES FROM THE PAST
Moreover, singing is the only true test to see if the instrumentalist actually can hear the music being played with
the mind's ear, without an instrument.
Sight singing for instrumentalist
Beyond how the poem is a poem, however, there are moments of real beauty and great poetry: lines such as "Betweenpie, I expected the loveliest brainchild ever" (75) and "Character captured/at the hinge of two destinies // While still unhandseled/When water was precise" (53) reward
the mind's ear. The Master Thiefworks at the kind of serious play missing from so many recent books of poetry.
Camille Guthrie. The Master Thief: A Poem in Twelve Paris. Honolulu: Subpress, 2000
In
the mind's ear, one has an ideal of the perfect performance of a piece.
Polyphony: the rhythm of musical development, the music lesson and the academic year