In “How we listen to Music,” Aaron Copland begins his essay by examining the three ways of listening to music or as he calls them “Planes” (Page 442) the three planes he examines are Sensuous, Expressive and sheerly Musical Planes (Page 442). Copland organizes his essays around explaining these three different ways of listening to music, he analyzes how most listeners actually hear music, and how they might enrich their listening experience. Copland thesis appears at the end of the essay where he argues for a complex and complete way of listening to music, one that includes these three different ways
The first plane of listening to music as per Copland is the sensuous plane, Copland suggest that most people listen to music only in the most