SEVEN: Life at Meter’s Outer Limit
I related the “Seven Plus or Minus Two” principle to pitches and harmonic centers in an earlier post to this
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Dissonance versus Atonality
Non-musicians sometimes confuse dissonance with atonality. As a tonal Romantic composer, I like to highlight the difference using an analogy
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SEVEN: The Magic Number of Harmony
In this blog’s first post, we looked at the physics behind our harmonic/melodic system. But music isn’t just a physical
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Math’s Gift to Musicians
Is music just a cultural product, or does it also have roots in nature? I contend that the tonal system
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