Seeing your mention of Circle of Fifths again reminds me of my college days! As you know, while I sing and play flute, I can't read music (although I did from about ages 7-10 when I played accordion----who AM I???), but nevertheless, I decided to make my first college out of high school, Denton's (TX) North Texas State U. (now known as U. of N. Texas)---amazing....I've attended 3 colleges in my life, and two of them have changed their names since I went! I've told them they'll have to try harder than that to erase any evidence of my matriculation!
As many of your readers know, UNT is one of the country's finest music schools, with their famous Jazz Band. I went there to be NEAR musicians, not study music, and sho' 'nuff, I took a basic Theory class, and doing just fine, until......yep, the good ole C of Fs! That confounded me so much I dropped out of the class, and went back to the U of Houston (the only one to keep their name!) for the next year, and hopped on their radio station!
Your awareness of how mind-numbing the C of Fs can be for students of all sorts makes me feel better about MY frustrations with it, and it makes me feel like not such a music doofus....the accordion did enough of THAT, already!! Thanks for the memories, Michael!🎶🎼🎵😁👍
It’s a musical cipher, for sure. Useful on the surface, but once you get past the very surface I’ve scratched here, the mathematical implications get pretty overwhelming. Part mystery, part Swiss Army knife.
Seeing your mention of Circle of Fifths again reminds me of my college days! As you know, while I sing and play flute, I can't read music (although I did from about ages 7-10 when I played accordion----who AM I???), but nevertheless, I decided to make my first college out of high school, Denton's (TX) North Texas State U. (now known as U. of N. Texas)---amazing....I've attended 3 colleges in my life, and two of them have changed their names since I went! I've told them they'll have to try harder than that to erase any evidence of my matriculation!
As many of your readers know, UNT is one of the country's finest music schools, with their famous Jazz Band. I went there to be NEAR musicians, not study music, and sho' 'nuff, I took a basic Theory class, and doing just fine, until......yep, the good ole C of Fs! That confounded me so much I dropped out of the class, and went back to the U of Houston (the only one to keep their name!) for the next year, and hopped on their radio station!
Your awareness of how mind-numbing the C of Fs can be for students of all sorts makes me feel better about MY frustrations with it, and it makes me feel like not such a music doofus....the accordion did enough of THAT, already!! Thanks for the memories, Michael!🎶🎼🎵😁👍
It’s a musical cipher, for sure. Useful on the surface, but once you get past the very surface I’ve scratched here, the mathematical implications get pretty overwhelming. Part mystery, part Swiss Army knife.