Music reflects the binary quality of the universe (yin and yang) with the principles of tension and release in time. This is the primary engine of music. This can be achieved with many different strategies and tactics. The following are some of the ways tension and...
In the third video of our Elements Of Music series, Music Wizard founder Chris Salter discusses how music structures like to be "round". Topics include: a) Rhythms repeat and different parts of the same length can be represented usefully as concentric circles on a...
In the fourth video in our Elements Of Music series, Music Wizard founder Chris Salter shares how the number 12 reveals interesting ways to look at and listen to music, and the correlation of music and math. a) Western classical harmony, especially since Bach, uses...
In the sixth video in our Elements Of Music series, Music Wizard founder Chris Salter makes the case why music is so powerful and affecting as part of our basic nature. Music is innate in the human being. It exists in all cultures and has universal principals and...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc4NIZlYKyo This series of lectures by John Crooks is both extremely interesting and a bit nerdy. Music notation, conventions and theory evolved over the last 2000 years, but was largely lost for almost a thousand of those years,...
Why does melody affect us so deeply, from the moment we are born? Tunes touch our deepest emotions, and are capable of inspiring love, sorrow, faith, and hope. But how does a melody actually work? In this film composer Howard Goodall looks at melody's basic elements....
