Baroque Style, 2/2 Time

You like music, do you not?
The funny bars and small black spots
Rhythm and key and staccati dots

I like music just as well,
The purest form of art, that swells
And holds all mankind in its spell

I'll bring a tune, you'll bring the rhyme
Your voice blends perfectly with mine
Then steadily we'll keep the time

With sweeping chords the chorus grew
We moved so close; the notes just flew
And in that moment then I knew -
All my music is in you.

Hawkie! I had to come review this when you told me you were posting =D

This might be just my personal preference, but I'm not the very biggest fan of starting poems with a question, especially questions that have a yes or no answer. Like with an essay, I think it's better to make sure they have to think about the answer.
The rest of the first stanza is quirky and rhythmic. I like it.

Second stanza:
Again, I think the first line leaves much to be desired. So, you like music. So? Now, you do go on to expand it, but I think that makes this sentence all the more pointless. It's always better to show than to tell!

The purest form of art, that swells
And holds all mankind in its spell

These are all overused words and descriptions for music. =/ Pure, swells, holding one in a spell. I think you'd do quite well to continue your quirky tone from the beginning, and I know you can come up with descriptions which are more your own.

I'll bring a tune, you'll bring the rhyme
Your voice blends perfectly with mine
Then steadily we'll keep the time

There's not much wrong with these lines except that there really isn't much to them at all. I can see how they're a transition to the last stanza, but that is all. Transition is good, but here it cost you an entire stanza which quite lost my interest. It gives me nothing to think about, nothing to picture. What you achieved in the 2nd two lines of this poem you lost here.

Your last stanza is good rhythmically, your rhyme is acceptable, as it's been throughout the piece. I never expected that this was what the poem was about, though, not from the beginning. Your last line is just different enough to escape being cliche, when you look at it by itself. I'd like to see the lines before it be more descriptive.

As to content, obviously your concept isn't new. =D I've said this throughout my review, but I'll say again, the second two lines in your poem were fresh, but too brief! The rest of the poem has very little description, and the connection with music and love as you write about it here, hasn't quite found it's own nook. Right now, it's still floundering in the midst of many other similarly focused poems.

Just taking what you've already written, I would definitely suggest making the rest of your poem imitate the second two lines.
But if you can (and I'm sure you can), include other imagery as well; if you don't limit yourself to music, you're more likely to bring together two or so images that, as a whole, give you one imaginative poem, just unique enough to attract people's attention.

Happy editing!

The first thing I noticed about the meaning of this poem was that it seemed like one person had all the technical stuff and the other had the musicality. I can appreciate these two different views of music since I'm a musician myself. I'm not great at reviewing poems since I myself can't write them. But I would say play up a little bit more on the appreciation of music. Tell a bit more about the effects it has on people and say why both the theory part and the musicality part are important. Sorry this isn't a very long or helpful review, but I hope I did some good.

Wonderful, wonderful, Hawkie.

I agree with Angela on the suggestion that it would be wonderful if the rest of your poem imitated the two final lines of the first stanza. Nonetheless, although rhyme isn't necessarily my favorite thing to taste in poetry, it plays a splendid performance here.

In the third stanza, I'm not sure that I like "Then" to begin that line; "And" would probably work better, because then kind of sounds a bit funny. It's not bad, but it's not too perfect. Similarly "We moved so close" sounds funny, and I'm not sure what that's pertaining to.

-likes-

Keep up the wonderful writing, Hawks. Two thumbs up.

June