Musical Auditory (Self) Rehab work

I did a wee bit of my own auditory training this week. I pulled out my new children's book of Peter and the Wolf that came with a CD, ordered specifically for this purpose, and sat down and listened to it carefully.

At the introduction, where the characters and their individual musical motifs are identified, most of the instruments were just different pitched fuzz, or fuzz with a vaguely different timbre. By the time the piece was done, though, I had begun to recognize some of the parts I knew before, like the french horns for the wolf, some of the string motif for Peter, and occasionally I could catch the flute of the bird. I listened to it again right away, and more bits and pieces of what I was hearing began to fit into my memory of it. So I am building a new template in my brain, for some of the instruments! I am so pleased!

Much more work to be done--but already some progress! Yay!