Table of Contents

The Musician's Walk: A Labyrinth?; Moving into Light and Wakefulness; The Walk: One Step at a Time; The Loneliness of Musicians: Breeding Unawareness; The Compassionate Musician; I and Thee; Who Am I? Who Are They?; An Ethical Code for Artists Defined by Awareness; Sister Music: An Awareness of Love and Its Power; Core vs. Force; Musicians Heal Yourselves: Listening in a New Way; Understanding Why Artists Hurl Others; The "Real" Sound of Music; Relationships and the Music Educator; A Servant-Musician: Ethics for the Church Musician; The Role of Humility on the Journey; Women: Mimetics and Self-Perception; The Musician's Need to Journal Daily: Being Aware of the Herd; Ethics and the Music Educator; A Code of Ethics from the Inside Out: Thoughts on an Ethical Code for Band Directors; One Body, Two Selves; Non-musical Considerations for the Church Musician; EBLA (Ethics by Looking Around); Be Not Afraid: Understanding Authentic Presence; Dedicating Oneself to an Ethical Code; The End is the Beginning: Coming Full Circle.

About the Author

James Jordan is an associate professor of conducting at Westminster Choir College of Rider University-Princeton and the founding conductor of the Westminster Voices. He is also a visiting distinguished professor of music education at West Chester University. He is the author of Evoking Sound: The Choral Warm-Up, The Musician's Soul, and The Musician's Spirit and the editor of several choral series that bear his name. He lives in Yardley, Pennsylvania.