by Joe Bennett | Oct 30, 2025 | 5live, berklee, Education, fm, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
This week Tony and I explored two-chord songs. There are a lot – indeed an almost infinite number – of chords available to composers and songwriters, but this week we heard songs from those who only needed two… The Beatles & Bill Withers... 
by Joe Bennett | Aug 18, 2025 | 5live, Education, fm, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Research, Songwriting
This week Tony and I discussed the flat 2 aka the minor second— that is, the second note of a diatonic scale that has been lowered by a half step (a semitone for British listeners). It is often used to add harmonic colour and emotional interest to a piece of music.... 
by Joe Bennett | Oct 4, 2021 | fm, Forensic Musicology, musicology, Popular Music, Songwriting
As you might imagine, most of the work of a forensic musicologist takes place behind necessarily closed doors due to commercial sensitivities. Once in a while a project I’m working on makes it to a courtroom, and if the media writes about it, my involvement is...
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