I first heard of Dmitri Tymoczko from his book A Geometry of Music [1], which I found to be very enlightening. This is a cool demo, although I suppose it shows

I first heard of Dmitri Tymoczko from his book A Geometry of Music [1], which I found to be very enlightening. This is a cool demo, although I suppose it shows a bit more where the basic texture of western music comes from than songwriting. But what I find most interesting about his ideas is how he's able to fairly convincingly connect them to the entire western music tradition. [1] http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/geometry-of-music.html http://dmitri.tymoczko.com/geometry-of-music.html (there's a link to Amazon from that page)