{"id":1118,"date":"2026-07-17T17:48:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1118"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:53:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:53:32","slug":"the-belkin-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1118","title":{"rendered":"The Belkin Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some friends and I have been reading Alan Belkin’s book Musical Composition: Craft and Art<\/em><\/strong>. We are all at different stages in our musical journey and have found the homework problems to be different degrees of difficult!<\/p>\n

I’ve been thinking about how I can make this book part of my music education. Yesterday I did a flying overview of the whole book (chapter names and subheadings). There is a chapter a little past the halfway mark called “Rondo Form” (ch. 14) and I realized that I would really like to compose something in Rondo form.<\/p>\n

For the last 6 weeks I have started the day with time outside. I sit on my favorite park bench, write in a notebook, and frequently look up to enjoy the nature nearby. These morning park bench meditations could make good material for a Rondo composition. A rondo takes the form A B A C A D…\u00a0 \u00a0The recurring sunlight, park bench, bird calls could be represented by the “A section”, and the various other streams of thought could be the B, C, D etc.<\/p>\n

So here is my plan: I will rush through chapters 3 through 9 (taking notes but not doing the exercises), skip chapters 10 through 14, and then pause to focus on the Rondo Form chapter (ch.14). For each chapter I will make an outline on a separate “page”\u00a0 (visible at the top of the blog). I’ll put my questions and personal observations on each chapter in the daily entries here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some friends and I have been reading Alan Belkin’s book Musical Composition: Craft and Art. We are all at different stages in our musical journey and have found the homework problems to be different degrees of difficult! I’ve been thinking … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}