Music Is the Teacher (if you listen)

Essays on Listening, Thinking and Musical Discovery

These essays are not intended to tell you what to think about music. They are intended to encourage you to think.

I am not asking the reader to agree with everything I discovered. I am asking the reader to discover things for themselves. Question what you are taught. Experiment with sound. Listen to the result. Music will tell you things no book—or teacher—can tell you if you learn how to listen.

That is why I call this collection Music Is the Teacher (if you listen).

1 - The Overtone Series Influence

2 - The Family Tree Analogy

3 - Diatonic Modality

4 - Free Improvisation

5 - Diatonic Awareness