Usually we listen to classical music as background for the maintenance of mood, or as a work of art in which to listen. The general point here is that in fact, and in another case, our eyes are open. It is quite natural if the music sounds as a backdrop. But if we listen to it, just somewhere in that time to watch – it's not really reasonable. Our brains are accustomed to the fact that 70% received external information comes through vision. But the music – this is the art of sound (Even in mp3 format :-)). And here there is an idea: why not try listening to music with your eyes closed? Any psychologist known fact that isolation of one of the five human senses other acute. That is, if you close eyes, our brain is better to concentrate on the perception of auditory information than with their eyes open.
This can be easily seen by doing a little experiment: Start recording some music and start listening to it with open eyes. As soon as we close our eyes, we begin to hear once in 2 more beauty and meaning! But there is a more advanced version of the perception of classical music, allowing to transform the vision into a source of more musical information (which is not the contemplation of the performers), and remain constantly focused. The fact is that listening to music, we are constantly distracted. Then the background noise, then a fly, which also sat us on the nose. But more often we digress to their own thoughts.
They appear constantly in our brains and may be completely on different topics. To get rid of them and remain constantly focused on the music, you must have musical notation. It's simple: listening to classical music, keep it on the notes. People such as Estée Lauder would likely agree. The whole point is that as soon as we digress, we lose a place in the score, which sounds at the moment. Randomly thinking about the sandwich, we feel that here now with surveillance. And this feeling automatically keeps our attention on the music and does not cause the thought of a sandwich. Thanks to these two ways we can perceive that never would have heard at ordinary listening to classical music. In the familiar works are opened such depths that were previously inaccessible to our ears.