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Is My Music Pretentious?
Be My Head:
Hey Firebird was only composed 99 years ago! : P
I'm the last person who will try and stifle creativity. It's why I like the Romantic period of music more than the Classical and Baroque periods. Because they finally allowed composers to do what they wanted.
I just don't get how learning about what people before you did pigeonholes you into copying them...
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: MadassAlex on 23 Jul 2009, 19:44 ---The idea that music theory is a limiting factor is ridiculous, and is only considered as such by people who haven't learned it.
--- End quote ---
People who have learned it having been subtly shackled into its strictures so completely they don't even realise it.
Also I can't learn music theory.
MadassAlex:
Let's remember that music theory isn't universal to every culture in its intricacies. We speak of western music theory while ignoring eastern and middle-eastern theories. Indian music theory, in particular, is so detailed that they have guidelines for harmonising microtones.
As an aside, any serious student of music leans scales and chords that specifically break what are considered the most proper scale and chord forms. Think the harmonic minor scale, which can be baroque or eastern depending on how you use it, or the phrygian dominant (a sort of cousin to the harmonic minor) that, while technically a major scale, works melodically much more like a minor scale.
Note that most scales have more scales derived from it, equal to the number of notes in the scale itself. There are thousands of scales. They all fall under "music theory" even if the vast majority of them actually slaughter wholesale "proper" classical harmony.
KharBevNor:
See what you are saying is just so fantastically boring it makes me want to yawn.
*yawn*
Just make some fucking noise.
MadassAlex:
If you like, but there's no reason to condemn what is essentially a method of description so musicians can more easily describe their ideas and actions to one-another.
It's like saying that the colour wheel takes the expression out of art.
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