<html><body><div>Here is the first of what I expect to be the final three posts in the thread "Desperately Seeking Relevance: Music Theory Today" in Essays & Endnotes. (The other two posts are nearly complete.) </div><div><br></div><div><a data-mce-href="http://essaysandendnotes.blogspot.com/2014/07/desperately-seeking-relevance-music.html" href="http://essaysandendnotes.blogspot.com/2014/07/desperately-seeking-relevance-music.html"><em>'"Modes of Imagining": A few thoughts on rules, definitions, common notions, requests, postulates, axioms, hypotheses, and other stuff'</em></a>:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- Stephen Soderberg</div><div> Keswick, VA</div></body></html>