Foundations of Music

Thoughts on Meter, Harmony, and Musical Perception

The Academic Papers section of my website includes a PDF scan of a paper that I delivered at the Music

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

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