Theory/Technique

[dagosto]

Math and music are ideas/languages whereas nature and sound is a physical manifestation. Theory is the math that we use to decode, or catalog, the sounds that are created from various methods of realizing musical language or ideas. Theory also helps use to analyze music directly from a written page or a verbal description where it can skip the mode of realization and manifest itself directly into ones brain.

I don't believe in wrong notes. Just bad ones.

[mikegee]

Originally Posted by dagosto

Math and music are ideas/languages whereas nature and sound is a physical manifestation. Theory is the math that we use to decode, or catalog, the sounds that are created from various methods of realizing musical language or ideas. Theory also helps use to analyze music directly from a written page or a verbal description where it can skip the mode of realization and manifest itself directly into ones brain.

I don't believe in wrong notes. Just bad ones.

good stuff! you would probably like an article written in psychology today on the concept of listening, perceiving and creating/recreating music on the brain. it is the most complex task the brain can and does perform, by far. think about it... if you are reading or listening to a piece of music and attempting to recreate it: simultaneously, your brain is processing sound from your ears, or notes from a page, your brain is sending your fingers, hands, (and probably eyes too) signals on what to play, your ears then pick up what youre playing sending a new signal to the brain, to discern if it sounds correct to the original sound, taking into account pitch, timing, coloration, timbre, tone, sustain and a host of other tasks, pretty amazing...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/artic...01-000029.html

http://www.psychologytoday.com/searc...ch.cgi?q=music

good stuff...

[smopo24]

Originally Posted by dagosto

Math and music are ideas/languages whereas nature and sound is a physical manifestation. Theory is the math that we use to decode, or catalog, the sounds that are created from various methods of realizing musical language or ideas. Theory also helps use to analyze music directly from a written page or a verbal description where it can skip the mode of realization and manifest itself directly into ones brain.

I don't believe in wrong notes. Just bad ones.

i second this emotion

[bwethera]

Theory is great and all but what you feel is more improtant because theory is a tool it seems to me it is used to get you out of a corner. music should be intuitive.

[Professor Riffs]

Originally Posted by bwethera

Theory is great and all but what you feel is more improtant because theory is a tool it seems to me it is used to get you out of a corner. music should be intuitive.

Music should indeed be intuitive. However, I don't feel loving and learning theory inside & out diminishes the intuitiveness or creativity in any way. You can use a hammer to build a shitty shack that falls down, or you can use it to build a gorgeous mansion that lasts forever. It's all up to the individual.

[mikegee]

hmmmm this reminds of the computer that they created to play chess, and he beat the world chess champion. ok, so in that context...

in terms of pure music theory and technique, minus any creative input; i guess if there isnt already, there willl soon be computer programs that will construct, create and arrange their own songs without any help from us humans whatsoever. will they be able to get copyrights, since they are not people hmmm

[Whoopysnorp]

Theory is nothing without inspiration, but it is without a doubt a really good idea to know about it. I remember when I took my first theory class, which I think was during my second to last semester in high school, and the things the teacher was telling me explained all kinds of stuff that I was starting to figure out on my own. Like "oh, so that interval that sounds that way is called a major third!" and "oh, so that's why a C major is related to an A minor!" I'm by no means an expert in theory, but knowing the basics of harmony and rhythm has really helped me write more creative stuff. It's basically getting an in-depth lesson on aspects of music whose surface you may only scratch by working on your own.