About the author
S. David Berry, Professor of Music and Objectivist music philosopher, has been teaching for 36 years at Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He is a BMI-affiliated composer and publisher who has taught across a wide range of disciplines including music composition, history, theory, technology, cognition, business, and The Beatles. His primary passions are composing and music esthetics. Before teaching, Dr. Berry toured full-time professionally for 14 years in rock bands and made a number of commercial recordings. He has degrees in horn performance from the University of Maryland and composition degrees from Converse and the University of South Carolina.