hidden depths within us

Sunday, March 10

The bliss and giddiness of rediscovery

An interactive meditation on music and daily living (part 2)

What I learned from my first time conducting an orchestra (part 1)

My new direction, and my move to Substack.

Safely reconnect to your instrument again through flow.

You have to let yourself feel the music you create.

It’s when the heart of who you are finds sacredness in the present moment, that's music.

Composing isn’t just listening to the sounds.

Our feelings of interconnection coincide with our perception of inherent beauty.

Our thoughts deeply relate not only to what but how we perceive in the world.

Music, a microcosm of the world, teaches that all we have is the present moment.

Six ways to do this. First principles, developing crafts, listening to other work, amateurs and professionals, committing to expression, and more.

How to improve your craft of musical composition, the dangers of understanding music theory based on the chromatic scale, and the benefits of thinking of musical intervals as actions.

Non-chord tones help make this short master work one of the most beautiful Christmas chorales. Download a free 4 part analyzed arrangement of this chorale.

Brahms transforms this chordal music into one of the most exciting and thrilling symphonic climaxes of the 19th century.

Through analysis, you learn the way to hear a piece of music. Musical example is transition harmony of first movement of Beethoven’s 7th.

The purpose of this kind of analysis is to aid in the search for how the musical structures impact us, and then to go for it.