It was a day…

It was a day to say the least.  School was crazy, the students were crazy, I WENT crazy…

That is okay, I guess.  I had some deep conversation with a few students about music, so that made up for the craziness (I had a whiteboard fall…that was fun).

Our conversation and three focusses (foci?…):

1.  What is a “key”?

2.  What is the purpose of harmony?

3.  What is performance?

I could go on for days about all three of these topics, but I will answer them all here very simply:

1.  A “key” is a perspective;

2.  The purpose of harmony is to add emotional bang-for-your-buck (depth of perception);

and

3.  Performance is the internalization and telling of a music story.

I will let these three ideas marinate before I blog about them.  More to come….