Melody stands as the most recognizable element of music, often the memorable thread that lingers in the mind long after a song ends, weaving pitches in sequence to form a narrative that can evoke joy, sorrow, or nostalgia with effortless grace. It represents the horizontal flow of notes over time, contrasting with harmony’s vertical stacks,…
Harmony is what soaks the music you make with your soul.What makes a basic melody feel elementary, and what makes an Epic national anthem from a stale nursery rhyme that nobody gives 2 computer keyboard smacks about. It’s about nestling notes together in chords, a timely choreography that provides the harmonic building blocks through which melodies and…
Rhythm is the heartbeat of music, and it’s what gives a piece its temporal form, moving us along in time and capturing our body on such an elementary level as to represent the twin sister of movement — that internal driving force that determines human action. It’s the way sounds and silences are organized over time to…
Deceptively simple in appearance music notation is the universal language through that composers, performers, and enthusiasts communicate complex ideas across vast distances of time and space – transforming physical vibrations into shapes on the page that anybody can “read”. In the center of it all are notation systems that help to define and conserve musical ideas,…