Instead of only hearing music, how did Evelyn Glennie experience it?

Correct answer: As vibrations

The governing concept is the alternative sensory experience that enabled Evelyn to become a successful musician. Because she was profoundly deaf, she could not understand music through ordinary hearing alone. She learned to notice vibrations passing through the floor, instruments, and different parts of her body. By interpreting these physical sensations, she identified musical sounds and responded to their pitch and rhythm. Therefore option A, ‘as vibrations’, is correct. A story is a verbal narrative, colours are visual impressions, and smell belongs to the sense of odour; none of these is the method described in the chapter. Evelyn’s experience shows that disability need not end a person’s artistic ambition when creativity and persistent practice open another route.