The line between Chinese and chinoiserie crumbles when composers hear their own music through the ears of foreigners.

There is a theory that composers hear their own pieces faster than the musicians who perform them.

Recent study shows that these two themes reflect the influence of spiritual music which the composer heard in his period in Florida.

Each composer hears the music in a different way, and their vocabularies are totally different.

Finally the composer hears the distant sound, which, it seems, was always within reach.

And then there is the question of how composers hear themselves.

As of this writing, the composers had not heard their own work alongside the other sections.

I hear words strung together in my head just as a composer hears notes and chords.

The composers, for their parts, had never heard of "Scrubs" when they were approached with the idea.

The composer can hear colleagues at home; the listener creates an individual audience with no connection to the city except, perhaps, through a retail store.