In the last post, I talked about how fans feel about music. Now I want to turn to how performers feel about it. We might all agree on a technical definition of "music", but what we are thinking about when we say the word may be very different. We can easily end up making no sense to each other. Let's be more careful.

I dislike blogs. Usually they are a lot of blather. Maybe I can count on myself to stick to a point, but blogs have the problem of being unstructured, bits of information scattered here and there on no organizing principal except the order in which the writer thought of them. They appeal to the checkout counter magazine mentality. Chaos and ephemera. Blogs are bad.

Exhausted by the needless complexity of Joomla and webhosting, I vowed to take a month off, but in the meantime I'll tell you about something I've noticed gradually over the years: my attitude toward music is unusual, which surprises me. In particular, what you and I mean, think of, and feel when we say "music" or "music theory" might be different. I'll take a few posts to explain why.