Category: Music Theory

  • Tritonet: A Revolutionary Way of Learning Music Harmony

    Tritonet: A Revolutionary Way of Learning Music Harmony

    Tritonet Musical Calculator is a musical abacus that provides an innovative way of learning and applying music harmony. It makes learning music theory much more accessible by focusing on building the intuition behind harmony. Tritonet is a musical abacus that provides an innovative way of learning and applying music harmony. It makes learning music theory…

  • The Musical Talent Born with or Innate

    The Musical Talent Born with or Innate

    Do you have a hidden musical talent? Many people believe that musical ability is something that is innate – that it is something you are born with. One of the oldest debates in the music world is whether musical talent can be learned, or if it’s innate. Natural Talent for Music On one side of…

  • Trailers, Tonality, and the Force of Nostalgia By Frank Lehman

    Trailers, Tonality, and the Force of Nostalgia By Frank Lehman

    Trailers, Tonality, and the Force of Nostalgia Film trailers are like hyperactive microcosms of the movies they herald. Their formal compression and immediacy makes these mini­films terrific laboratories in which to explore how musical structure can serve expressive ends. But trailer music isn’t just shrunken down movie music. It speaks its own dialect, a kind…

  • Music Theory Through the Lens of Film by Frank Lehman

    Music Theory Through the Lens of Film by Frank Lehman

    Frank Lehman’s Paper Music Theory Through the Lens of Film The encounter of a musical repertoire with a theoretical system benefits the latter even as it serves the former. A robustly applied theoretic apparatus hones our appreciation of a given corpus, especially one such as film music, for which comparatively little analytical attention has been…