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About Me

I am a divorced white guy. I have two teenaged kids who live with their mom 130 miles away from me. I teach band in a public school on the gulf coast of Texas and love my job. Leave me a message if you want!

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My Interests

music theory, music composition, band music, orchestra music, opera, choral music,humor, sarcasm, education, trivia, puzzles, movies, all kinds of other stuff...

I'd like to meet:

Josquin desPrez, Johannes Brahms, Charles Ives, George Crumb, Anton Webern

Music:

I like some of all types of music, though most music of any type is crap. I find myself listening to odd pop music (the Austin Lounge Lizards, the Bobs, They Might Be Giants), and art music of all eras. Strangely enough, as a band director, I don't listen to a lot of band music.

Movies:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail, My Bodyguard, Mystery Men, The Producers, V for Vendetta
Most Recent:
Ratatouille

Television:

Cash Cab, CSI, The Daily Show, Hell's Kitchen, Law and Order, Mind of Mencia, Mythbusters, Time Team

Books:

Currently reading:
The Gnostic Gospels, Me Talk Pretty Some Day
Recently read:
1491, The Two Georges, A Smattering of Ignorance

Heroes:

I have many...some are political (Jefferson, for example), some are music composers (Josquin Des Prez, J. S. Bach, Johannes Brahms, John P. Sousa, Anton Webern, Benjamin Britten, Paul Hindemith, George Crumb to name a few), some are writers (C. S. Lewis, Harry Turtledove), and others are some of my friends.

My Blog

The Glorious Fourth

It's raining today, for the tenth day in a row. My children are still asleep, and I decided to write a little here. I am always a bit contemplative on Independence Day. More than...
Posted by Bob Coats on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:56:00 PST

Music and Time: Meter

Music is an ephemeral art. That's a fancy way of saying that music exists in time; one cannot go back and change something once it's played. There are various aspects of time in music, som...
Posted by Bob Coats on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:17:00 PST

A lot of nothing.

CHS Graduation on Friday was moved to the auditorium because of the rain. It went well after a very stressful day of preparation. Problems with sound system, problems with people not ...
Posted by Bob Coats on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:07:00 PST

Introduction to Music Theory

Ok, so just what IS music theory? I've got a couple of college degrees in the subject, and the best explanation I can give is: Music theory is the study of how to think about music. That doesn't sound...
Posted by Bob Coats on Fri, 25 May 2007 07:21:00 PST