OK, that was fun. Seriously, there is a real path to learning music through modeling or mimicking. We are visual creatures and it plays to that strength. My background is in music and linguistics, but I am fascinated by how people learn, and convinced that music can...
Truly an inside music joke. Counterpoint was the medieval guide to how to compose multiple voices, especially 4 part church hymns in ways that would harmonize "correctly" for the current tastes and conventions. A "fifth" is the fifth note on a major scale, the second...