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The Twelve-Bar Blues: A Living Form
The blues is a scale, a style, a form, and a philosophy. As a form, the twelve-bar blues is one of the most durable structures in the history of music: twelve…
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Song Forms: Strophic, Verse-Chorus, and Through-Composed
Song forms are the structural skeletons songwriters reach for again and again, the shapes that make a song memorable, singable, and recognizable as a song.
Read MoreMotifs, Phrases, and the Architecture of a Song
A motif is a musical seed. It is the smallest fragment of melodic and rhythmic material that has an identity — something recognizable, something the listener…
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.
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