In his essay on listening, Copeland brings out three types of listening. The first of these three types is 1) the sensuous plane. The second of these is 2) expressive. The third is 3) the purely musical plane. The first of these two are relatively easy to describe. The first is listneing just for the pleasure of listening. You can be distracted and still listen in this form. When you turn the radio on in the car and just listen while you drive or as you clean your house or write a paper, or anything. The second of the of these planes is the expressive planes. This plane encomasses the actual meaning behind the music. Does music have meaning? Copeland thinks it does. I do too. Music means different things to different people making it very universal. All cultures through history have had music with which they expressed themselves. Not all of these people's advanced their music very far. However, almost all people have used music. Some people do not feel that music has meaning. I do not agree with this. I believe that music has meaning and which is very personal. The third of these is the purely musical plane. This plane is rather difficult to explain and the author does not go into in great detail. When I listen to music, I think I often listen n the expressive form, but I know I combine all the forms.