Composer-Pianist Robert Cunningham

What is Romanticism?

My music fits squarely within the movement known as Romanticism. Musical Romanticism is customarily associated with the nineteenth century and

Most musicians are familiar with the seven-tone diatonic set, which determines the pitches for a major scale or a natural

I related the “Seven Plus or Minus Two” principle to pitches and harmonic centers in an earlier post to this

Non-musicians sometimes confuse dissonance with atonality. As a tonal Romantic composer, I like to highlight the difference using an analogy

In this blog’s first post, we looked at the physics behind our harmonic/melodic system. But music isn’t just a physical

Is music just a cultural product, or does it also have roots in nature? I contend that the tonal system