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Is My Music Pretentious?
pwhodges:
Sapir-Whorf (which is not universally accepted) would have some bearing if music required theory in order to be made. But as music can be considered a language of its own, that is not so; theory then should be seen as merely descriptive, explaining aspects of the musical language in terms that enable study and analysis. The use of study and analysis is not to tell you how to write music, but to help you understand why a particular bit of music works as it does - this is useful if it is something you wish to emulate (or repeat, if you wrote it) in another context.
Hat:
--- Quote from: a pack of wolves on 08 Aug 2009, 06:40 ---Still rather puts paid to your claim that if there are two different but equally worthy ways expressing something both are wrong and/or worthless though. Where you're seeing a confining system others see a means of communicating information, nothing more nor less. English has its rules of grammar and although you can use the language very adeptly without articulating them it can become incredibly hard to help someone else understand the language without being able to tell them the way it works. My ability to articulate grammatical rules is appalling despite being able to use English to a pretty high standard, so when I tried to help out at a conversational English class I found myself unable to help people learn how to do what I can. Grammatical rules are the way to communicate that information just like music theory can be the way to communicate that information about music.
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People need to stop using this music theory=syntax analogy because if it was a good analogy (it isn't) all it does is show just how ridiculously broad a definition of "music theory" you are talking about here.
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 08 Aug 2009, 10:04 ---It damages my creativity, because it is an incomprehensible load of utter garbage.
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I am pretty persistent, and can continue to ask until you give a reasoned answer.
KharBevNor:
A reasoned answer to what?
I've given answers both reasonable and flippant.
Also, this is more the equivalent of him trying to play me at Halo but I don't even own an x-box.
MadassAlex:
That is so apt.
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