The author looks at why music affects us as it does, why are we deeply moved by some music by not by other music, what is it about music that "sends" us, and where it send us. He explores the relationship between music and human experience -- a portrayal, not of the tangible facts of experience, but of the concern aroused by our encounter with those facts. He explains that while avant-garde abstractionism is concerned only with music as art--a concern...