Won’t You Be My Dear Valentine?

The Children By Don Rath Jr …and the children used to come here to play, sing, frollick and dance. Once there was a way of life where joy and laughter filled the land. When you could find peace rafting on a river and life in a flower. Where loving was the status quo and a […]

I’ve come to know you through my song. My heart is warm now in the sun. Awakened to you and your love…

Sometimes, in the alone-ness of my thoughts I recall, in my moments of great despair, how you, in those same moments, lifted me, …

Time Signatures represent the time related structures and instructions whereby the note and rest patterns are placed within a specific rhythmically based sequence. They are simply observable, repeated events which occur within the structure of…

…understanding time signatures requires a certain amount of study of three concepts; a philosophical approach to the concept of time itself, the description of the symbols used for notating music as well as an approach via the use of musical symbols in applications demonstrating the effect the different symbols have on playback and performance of music.

…dynamics as used in music, we are presenting other symbols used to cause the performers to alter the intensity and the variation of sound intensity through the use additional music symbols.

…his particular trip allowed me to visit the beach where I was able to sit and watch as the waves gently rolled in and then they finish their journey by rolling back out again into the Gulf of Mexico, in a continuous motion, watching the waves moving in and then back out again…

Music is first an idea, a thought. It must be transferred from that thought stage and into the physical world via either music notation and/or performance. In this way, music becomes real!