Beethoven Rules. Period. (or "Full Stop" as they'd say in Australia)

I would just like to say that Beethoven is a fucking genius.

In his first Symphony, he immediately makes a statement by beginning the piece with a dominant 7 chord. But it's the dominant of the forth scale degree!! By the end of the first section of the introduction, after he's tugged us around for a bit, we arrive at a very likely looking cadence that Beethoven soon shows us is actually the dominant! Though we are now finally sitting comfortably in the key of C Major, we don't come to a full Perfect Authentic Cadence until end of the introduction and beginning of the Allegro con brio.

The blog without a place in the public eye...

Should you have stumbled upon this blog, a few words to preface your reading:

This really has no intended audience besides myself. I do not blog to please any potential readers. I suppose you could say this is my online journal of sorts. You may ask why I have decided to put this online rather than keeping it in the privacy of a written journal. I guess I don't have a very satisfactory answer for that. Perhaps I'm hoping someone will come along and read these musings and connect with them in some way. Perhaps my posts will be a way of reaching out to the world in a way that attempts to avoid sounding like a "cry for help".  I'm not really sure and I don't think I owe anyone—even myself—an explanation.

Only time will tell what this will eventually amount to. Hell, this could be the only time I ever post. All I know is that there have been several instances where I've had midnight thoughts that I had a mild desire to commit to record and to share with the world. This is my attempt to create a place for me to do just that.

(a bit of an update: http://starktruthmusings.blogspot.com/2012/01/ive-apparently-come-out.html)