Song vs. Story

(Picture fromhere.)

My father was a musician and my mother was a writer. Apparently, it’s harder to teach story than music so I started piano at four and have kept it up ever since. Think of me as a determined and talentless, but enthusiastic, amateur.

But my mother got me in the end.

Over the years I’ve been thinking over and over how music and narrative are related. I don’t mean sound tracks intended to support or tell actual stories or things like opera where stories are performed with music....