Music Composition: Art vs Craft

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...

Archaic Music Terminology

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...

Absolute Pitch vs Relative Pitch vs Pitch Recognition

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;...

Gestalt and Perceptual Intelligence

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...

Pitch Continuum

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...