In this blog I will show how I composed the baroque style piece ‘Ouverture’ starting with simple, strict two-voice counterpoint, and then embellishing that into a fuller baroque style. Most of the material is derived from a single melody which is varied using augmentation, fragmentation, inversion and embellishment. In the sheet music for this blog I’ve added numbers in between the two staves indicating the intervals between the top and the bottom voice....

In this blog I will explain how to easily add sheet music to your site, such as the example below. Note how the division of the bars adjusts when you shrink your screen width, it’s truly responsive! Introduction When writing blogs about music, you might want to render snippets of music notation in between paragraphs of text. I will show you how to easily embed MusicXML content within your Hugo posts....

The two skills of solfege Solfege, in its fullest sense, is the art of translating musical ideas from one representation into another. It teaches the skill of, on the one hand, recognising music in all its forms and, on the other hand, reproducing music in another form. graph RL A[Music] subgraph solfege B[Recognition] C[Reproduction] end A---B C---A Music’s primary medium is sound. Another common medium is music notation, which is written using special musical symbols known as ’notes’....

I’ve been thinking a while about starting a blog to get various ideas out there in the world, whether they be about programming, music or other things. Getting content out there on ’the web’ might help me promote the things I’m doing, attract likeminded people or people that can help me in my endeavours, and it can help me hold myself accountable to the ideas I get and the goals I set for myself....