Monthly Archives: June, 2011
Wallace Berry and Tonality
I’m working through Wallace Berry’s Structural Functions in Music, which has become a staple of the hapless graduate student’s reading list—at least judging by the $5 price for one of several used copies floating around Amazon’s marketplace. The prose is purple (Wallace Berry), and at times incomprehensible; the man loves listing synonymous adjectives, adverbs, nouns, [...]
Reading, Writing, and Edumacation
There comes a point in studies when it stops being useful to read more and more, and begins to be useful to write all the time. A two-year period is about right, as it turns out, to learn enough about a field’s many facets to transition from exploration to contribution. It’s very important to know [...]
