Bringing the Baroque into the 21st Century What is Counterpoint? Counterpoint refers to an argument, idea, or theme used to create a...

Ruth Crawford Seeger: Modernist Composer, Music Educator, Ethnomusicologist, and Mother Before we get into our Mother's Day themed post,...

Inventor and Composer In previous posts, we've focused on the instruments played in the conventional Western orchestra, some instruments...

Music for Remembrance We've reached Fall 2020, a year that will no doubt be remembered as a year of transition and mourning. This past...

More Than "Just A Singer" – Voices As Instruments In the last post, I introduced the four main voice types, as well as additional...

Classifying the Voice There are four main voice types in choral music: soprano, alto, tenor, and bass.

What images pop into your heard when you hear the word "texture"? Soft or hard? Dry or wet? Alive or inanimate? Slimy? Sticky? Fur, skin,...

Just as DNA is made up of the building blocks (nucleotides) that tell cells how to make up organisms, there are building blocks that make...

A Guide to the Circle of Fifths and Why You Should Know Them If you are new to music theory and/or composing and songwriting, the image...

Some detractors of music theory say that studying it limits musicians. However, this is false. Simply because we know the rules does not lim

VDMX Screen Capture With the constant inundation of audio-visual stimulation, it is difficult for the average person to go for more than...