10. HOW’S, WHY’S, AND OTHER STUFF
- Why This Book
Music is a language. It has an organization and vocabulary, a grammar and structure, a texture and architecture. And none of it is theoretical: nothing that makes music music is a theory, therefore this book.
It’s patterned after parts of the Berklee College of Music’s harmony and music structure curriculum, which is based on pioneering and wonderful work by Joseph Schillinger in the 1920’s, which he brought into being because he, too, thought the notion ofmusic theory pretty lame. He wanted to shed some light on what had become an absurdly complicated and oddly unnecessarily complex way of looking at the structure of music that had evolved in the 19th century. Schillinger did for music what Carl ...
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