Overture: What Is an Amateur and Why Amateuring Matters -- First Movement: The Courtship -- Getting It into My Bones -- Seduced by the Cello -- Amateuring and Rival Pleasures -- Second Movement: The Marriage -- The Zen of Thumb Position Maintenance -- Teaching the Love -- Meditations of an Aging Pupil -- Interlude: The Amateur Writer Quarrels with the Amateur Player -- Third Movement: The Love Fulfilled -- Amateur Hours: Disastrous, Not Too Bad, and Just Plain Glorious -- Hearing with Your Body: How Playing Transforms Listening -- The Three Gifts -- Fourth Movement: Rising Dissonance, Resolved to Heavenly Harmony -- "Making It," Selling Out, and the Future of Amateuring -- The Music of the Spheres -- But What Spheres?
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