Tonal Resources for the Creative Musician
cyber text for the theory of American music

Welcome to the "cyber text" of American popular music. Where interactive hypertext redefines our explorations of the "tonal resources" that create the musical sounds we love. From folk song to the blues, towards jazz and into pop, rock and classical, the cybertext creates a "3d" learning environment, inclusive of all the sounds we dig. Exploring from the organic sources of sound and pitch to the brightest creative musical stars in our musical universe who shape them, our cyber text allows for a wholeness of learning directed by our own interests, passions and curiosities of the music we love.

So, just what is this cyber text book about? Tonal Resources For The Creative Musician © is simply a music theory text. It looks at the popular musical resources of our collective past and present and examines common ways in which these elements are combined in creating the various popular American styles of music we love.

So how to begin? Lot's of ways really.

Click on one of the main chapter headings at the top of this page.

Scroll down the index looking for topics of interest.

There is a start button of course.

Or send an e mail to me for suggestions. This will also create a link between us if any questions or comments arise.

Navigate through the text using the internal hyperlinks or your browsers "back and forth" arrows.

Keep track of where you are between sessions by bookmarking the page with your browser software, so as easily pick it up where ya left off!

If you find a name, place or thing and need to explore further, simple highlight and copy and paste it in your favorite search engine. Being on line does have it's advantages. So pick and click and off ya go!

"The person who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." Dr. Caryl Haskins

Site use agreement. All contents of this site are subject to and protected by: Copyright © 2003 Joseph A. Craig. All rights reserved. This site is for the learner's personal, noncommercial use. To all readers of these pages, please freely share all of the content of ideas found within this web site with those around you, hopefully making yours and their world a better place to hang through the music you create and lovingly share. Blessings to you and yours!