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The Overtone Series: Music’s Hidden Math
Here is a fact that might change how you hear music: every sound you have ever listened to is actually many sounds at once.
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Repeats, Roadmaps, and the Art of Musical Navigation
Music is repetition, variation, and contrast — in some combination, in virtually every piece ever written.
Read MorePhrases, Periods, and the Architecture of Musical Sentences
Musical phrases are the building blocks of melody — the smallest complete units of meaning in a piece of music. Music is a language.
Read MoreSharps, Flats, and the Enharmonic Twins
The musical alphabet has seven letters — A through G — and the piano keyboard has twelve distinct pitches per octave.
Read MoreThe Piano Keyboard: Twelve Keys, Infinite Music
The piano keyboard is Tool Number Two, and it is the most important physical diagram in the study of Western music theory.
Read MoreClefs, the Grand Staff, and the Art of Reading Pitch
A clef is a symbol that defines one specific line of the staff by letter name, and from that single anchor, all other pitches follow.
Read MoreThe Staff: Music’s Map of Sound
The staff is Tool Number One — the primary surface on which Western music is written and read.
Read MoreTime Signatures: The Blueprint Behind Every Beat
At the beginning of a piece of music — just after the clef, before the first note — sits a fraction that is not quite a fraction.
Read MoreNotes, Rests, and the Language of Duration
Every sound has a beginning and a length. Those two facts — when a sound starts and how long it lasts — are the raw material of rhythm.
Read MoreWhat Is Music? Sound, Silence, and Measured Time
Here is the most stripped-down definition of music you will ever encounter, and also the most durable: music is sound and silence in time.
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