Textbook
The Book
A future home for chapter samples from The Sound and the Theory, workbook excerpts, and carefully chosen teaching passages.
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The Common Tone
Where the sacred and profane share the same cup
A public home for popular music theory, listening, composition, and teaching: serious enough for scholars, warm enough for students, and clear enough for curious musicians who want to hear how music thinks.
A small illuminated doorway into a larger musical world.
A Theory Project With a Hearth
The Common Tone treats classical tradition and popular idioms as neighbours, not rivals. Gospel, blues, rock, jazz, soul, country, hip-hop, and the older tonal traditions all become evidence in the same argument: music teaches us most clearly when we listen for what different worlds share.
Rooms Opening Soon
The First Public Doors
Teaching
Teaching Resources
Handouts, worksheets, listening guides, and analysis templates will live here when they are ready for public use.
See the resource shelfPublic Notes
Essays & Notes
Short essays and longer meditations on harmony, form, melody, groove, language, style, and sacred/profane musical time.
Visit the essay tableWorkshop
Musical Tools
The Lab is open: interactive theory quizzes on modes, secondary dominants, phrasing, and modulation — formative practice, scored in the browser and forgotten on reload. More tools to follow.
Step into the LabArchive
The Vault, Eventually
The private research vault remains private. Public excerpts will appear only after review, rights checking, and careful editorial preparation.
Read the project frameBuilt to Grow Slowly
This first page is only a lantern: a clear signal, a warm threshold, and a stable place to begin. The larger house can come later, room by room.