Voice is most likely the element that keeps you reading, that makes you care about what is being said, that makes you trust the writer. The music—or voice of the text—underlies and supports the meaning of what you have to say and it is the music from my first draft that tells me the meaning of what I have written. As I listen to the music of the draft, I begin to understand the meaning of the text and as I hear how it will sound in the reader’s ear I learn how to revise for that reader so the meaning will be heard.