Len’s current Music Blog is intended for people who have already had some exposure to music notation. A later blog will be created for absolute musical beginners, and/or for musicians who have no previous exposure to music theory. Stay ‘tuned,’ to coin a phrase.
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INDEX to all of Len’s Music Blog Posts:
NOTE: If you click on any of these links (by clicking anywhere in the underlined portion), you will leave this website and will go to the actual blog.
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Post 1: (6/7/24): This is Not a Treble Clef. When a G-clef is also a Treble, and when it isn’t.
Post 2: (6/14/24); This is Not a Bass Clef. Ending some of the confusion about when an F clef is also a Bass Clef. Or not.
Post 3: (6/21/24): This is a C Clef. The other clef. The one nobody talks about.
Post 4: (6/28/24): Guido. Meeting the man who invented music notation.
Post 5: (7/5/24): How the Notes Got Their Shapes. The title says it all.
Post 6: (7/12/24): Beyond Notes. Other musical shapes, besides notes and clefs.
Post 7: (7/19/24): Why Italian? An explanation for why so many words used in music notation come from one particular country.
Post 8: (7/26/24): More Italian Words and Some More Shapes.
Post 9: (8/2/24): Tuplets, etc. What happens when there’s no way to do it?
Post 10: (8/9/24): Metronomes. When you need to use a musical speedometer.
Post 11: (8/16/24): Music Notation Variety. How to get beyond bare-bones musical grammar.
Post 12: (8/23/24): Intervals. The math (or lack thereof) in music.
Post 13: (8/30/24): Transposing. What transposing is, and the man who did more of it than anybody.
Post 14: (9/6/24): Triads. What is a chord? And what isn’t?
Post 15: (9/13/24): Four-Note Chords. Basic musical complexity.
Post 16: (9/20/24): Voice Leading. Making music more ‘singable.’
Post 17: (9/27/24): Counterpoint. Music thought of as a flow through time.
Post 18: (10/4/24): Sebastian. The most famous Bach.
Post 19: (10/11/24): Karl. The used-to-be-most-famous Bach.
Post 20: (10/18/24): Color in Music: An introduction to Chromaticism.
Post 21: (10/25/24): Felix. The man who resurrected Sebastian.
Post 22: (11/1/24): More About Rules. Did famous composers ‘play by the rules’? Or did the rules play by them!
Post 23: (11/8/24): Relativity. All about key signatures and Stuff Like That.
Post 24: (11/15/24): The Three Minors. Which is more important–harmony or melody? Or maybe something else.
Post 25: (11/22/24): Temperament: Why keyboards and other instruments are playable.
Post 26: (11/29/24): Accidental Pandemonium: The vast array of pitch modification symbols and what they do.
Post 27: (12/6/24): Series: The foundation of all harmony.
Post 28: (12/13/24): More About Series: The different ways to count up from a fundamental note.
Post 29: (12/20/24): The Seventh Partial: How Middle Eastern Music remained ‘pure’ when ours didn’t.
Post 30: (12/27/24): Ranking the Intervals: Why some intervals are more important to our ears than others, and what that means for harmony.
Post 31: (1/3/25): Circular Reasoning: What is the Circle of 5ths and why is it important?
Post 32: (1/10/25): How to Use the Circle: The Wedge, and how it helps you understand harmony.
Post 33: (1/17/25): Leaving the Wedge: When and how to exit the wedge of the Circle of 5ths, and how to get back.
Post 34: (1/24/25): Substitutions: How you can substitute minor for major without breaking the rules. (And vice versa.)
Post 35: (1/31/25): Wedge for Minor Keys: How to re-number the wedge when the basic key you’re in is minor.
Post 36: (2/7/25): Final Post: A Summary of what has been covered and discovered in this series of blog posts.
This blog has ended its weekly schedule, but you can still go to any of the entries by clicking the underlined areas above.
I plan to publish a book about music notation, with its title the same as the first post in this series: This is Not a Treble Clef. When the book is (hopefully) available, directions for purchasing it will be posted here on this page.