Final Post The Last Post in Len’s Current Music Blog (entry for 2/7/2025) We’ve come to the end of this current series. By popular request, Len will soon launch a music blog aimed at beginners, or at musicians with no exposure to music theory who want to learn about why music works the way it does. (The current series of posts was aimed at people who already had some exposure to music notation, theory, and harmony, to correct some myth-conceptions running around out there.) Summaries are often useful things, so here’s a summary of what we covered in this series: 1. In the first six posts, we talked about where traditional music notation came from, including its method of showing pitch and rhythm, and how all of the current features of notation grew out of a concept developed by a monk named Guido. In particular, we talked about how clefs define pitch, and why a clef without a staff is like a kettle without a stove. 2. In the next two posts, we discussed why and how the Italian language...