Cygnus Ensemble

Our first attempt:  the audio tour of Frank Brickle's The Creation

There is a series of books with titles like, Foucault for Dummies, or Marshall MacLuhan for Dummies . This beginner's guide is conceived in that spirit.

We're now accepting volunteers:

--volunteers to make an outline, breaking up the job into workable portions

--volunteers to elaborate the items in the outline

-- volunteers to do the comic-style illustrations     

"New Music" is now being used to denote "new pop muisic", a sign of the late stage of baby-boomer pop culture, projected 30 years beyond its vital phase. In that vital phase it didn't have to be called "new". Everyone knew it was "new". We spoke of "the new Led Zepplin album", certainly, but the genre was never "new music". It was rock music. "New" was only needed for rock after it became old.
We could think about new designations--nonpop is used by the Argosy Foundation.

Who might read New Music for Dummies?

--Anyone who is curious and interested in new musical experiences

--The parents, siblings, significant others, extended family and friends of the exponentially swelling ranks of composers in the world today