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Taken from “The Listening Book- Discovering Your Own Music” by W.A.Mathieu.

Obviously, wind chinmes; they can lead you to unexpected pleasure.

Two music boxes, or three, at once.

Rain.

River; waterfall.

Crickets; FROGS.

Wind around corners.

Your own breathing.

People hammering at a construction site: the cross rhythms.

Radio tuned between two music stations so you can hear both equally.

“Station X”: the pure static between stations on radio or TV.

Water in a pipe: toilet filling; the sound of a shower.

Playgrounds: children at a distance.

Wind in leaves.

The street: listening from one spot.

Foreign-language conversations.

Echo.

Log fire.

Flagpole: the wind in the flag, the rope on the pole.

Your hair being rubbed against your scalp.

Shuffling cards.

That’s twenty, but I don’t want to stop!

Crackling cellophane.

Aluminum soft drink cans when you squeez them just a little bit.

Don’t forget birds.

“The Way of Music” has more depth, but this is a nice handbook about music appreciation. Written in short blog like essays, it is easy to read (without needing to from the start to the end), simple to understand, very descriptive and visual (and audible), in a way we would be more aware of sounds appreciative of sounds around us.