Historic Western Tuning Systems and their Significance (Academic)

Discover the unsolvable math problem that serves as the shaky foundation for all of tonal music. How have musicians since Pythagoras attempted to fix this problem, and why are we left in a world where pianos are intentionally made to be out of tune?

Assessment in Group Free Improvisation

(Academic)

Discover the art form in which people improvise together in the absence of musical genre. What is its educational value, and how can it be meaningfully assessed? We will examine previous research and call upon our own creativity to answer these questions.

Music Philosophy Paper

(Academic)

What is music? What is the meaning and value of music? I attempt to answer some of these deeper questions with insight and brevity.

Chord Progression Tendencies

This is a teaching tool I use to help students create and analyze chord progressions. It shows which chords typically lead to other chords in both major and minor tonalities.