"What a listener shall hear in music depends upon what he is, or is capable of putting into it, that is hearing into it. Hearing is not a mere registering of sounds. It is a positive, active process of reconstruction in the mind of the listener. This may take the form of enrichment by analyzing and supplementing the objective sounds, or it may take the form of negative reaction, "hearing" elements of ugliness and countless irrelevant factors which color the interpretation of what is being heard. In the highest form of appreciative listening, we approach the attitude of ecstasy in which the actual sounds of the tones merely furnish the cues for the mental reconstruction that proceeds from the mind of the listener. To a person who is not capable of imagery, there can be no genuine music, because, like the lines in the crayon sketch, the tones by themselves, however accurately heard, furnish at the best a mere skeleton for hearing."Carl E. Seashore: Psychology of music
Dover Publications, New York - 1967
pag. 169
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