by Dolores Catherino | Mar 24, 2019 | musings
Theory informs the craft of composition. Limitations in the development of craft can restrict the musician’s expressive potential within the art of composition. Composition as Craft: virtuosity developed via music theory as generalizations, descriptive rules and...
by Dolores Catherino | Mar 24, 2019 | musings
Regarding the historical origin and use of the 15ma symbol. It is also important to recognize that the musical language is ever-evolving. An effective symbolic language is most widely useful when it incorporates self-explanatory efficiency. The meaning of 16va/16vb is...
by Dolores Catherino | Mar 14, 2019 | musings
Relative Pitch is a recognition process based on awareness and understanding of complex pitch interrelationships from within a musical context (dynamic recognition). Absolute Pitch is a process of pitch awareness based solely on memorization (static definition;...
by Dolores Catherino | Jan 9, 2019 | musings
Development of Gestalt Perceptual Intelligences in Music GESTALT – infinite potential processes of spontaneous creative organization at a level of complexity beyond the perceptual and conceptual inputs. An exemplar of nonlinearity, synergy, relativity and...
by Dolores Catherino | Jan 9, 2019 | musings
CONTINUUMReflections on the Pitch Continuum as a musical paradigm, encompassing any scale derivation method (pitch collection, pitch-color palette). Micropitch collections are an exponential expansion of the various scale and modal configurations within our current...
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