Copeland states that there are a few ways of listening to music, one which involves the sensuous plane where the music doesn’t have much meaning but to pass time. The second which is the expressive plane. When I listen to music, I tend to listen to both types, but I don’t really listen to classical music at all. The only times that I do end up listening to classical is at school, and therefore thats why the Beethoven piece had a lot of meaning for me. It brought back a lot of memories, and thats why I love about music, it has a way of connecting with us in some way. I couldn’t make the same connection with Tchaikovsky because it was my first time listening to his work, thats why I listened to his music in a more sensuous plane, compared to Beethoven where I was really thinking about the art, and when I used to listen in school I didn’t listen so carefully and since I didn’t enjoy classical very much I didn’t really appreciate Beethoven’s work like I did when I listened to it now.
