Dialogue

Abstract

The article provides a critique of the 2002 article “Timing and Music,” by Stuart Albert and Geoffrey Bell, regarding the use of temporal sequences to find useful ways of understanding organizational timing. The article attempts to musically map the standoff in Waco, Texas between the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and religious leader David Koresh in a way differing from that of Albert and Bell. The article discusses the importance of tension and release in the musical mapping of the incident, and states that it is an important detail that Koresh and his followers celebrated the Passover holiday.