The Song of the Chickadees

<p>A music professor I had in grad school once remarked that chickadees know music theory because their songs sound like &lsquo;re-do&rsquo; and therefore imply an authentic cadence.</p> <p>For those not familiar with Western tonal music theory, the point was that the song of the Chickadee has a sense of completion and resolution, as opposed to being incomplete and unresolved. Those two pitches back-to-back (re-do, or supertonic and tonic, or if you&rsquo;ve got an instrument near you, any note followed by a note exactly one whole step lower) is, perhaps, one of the most fundamental melodic sequences in Western tonal music.</p> <p><a href="https://thetaoist.online/the-song-of-the-chickadees-b7739a3e0dd7"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>