For musicians and music teachers, the concept of Progress can be misleading. We can strive in our own ways to emulate the masters who’ve preceded us, but it’s a mistake to think there’s such a thing as being better than those masters. For composers, mistaken concepts of progress can be downright dangerous. Human nature doesn’t change, and the reasons people listen to music don’t change. Whatever the thousand different feelings or ideas we experience in music, we seek meaning; we seek sounds that