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Is My Music Pretentious?
NotAFanOfFenders:
What?
Johnny C:
--- Quote from: David_Dovey on 31 Jul 2009, 06:01 ---hey so it turns out that one does not necessarily preclude the other
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Some of my favourite records have been created by people who have no idea about music theory, so knowing theory doesn't preclude making good music either
BUT
that being said, I have to hammer home the point that if you play music then you utilize music theory whether you know it or not and so it's kind of absurd to hold out against it like you can possibly insulate yourself against what is effectively a system that gives language to something you already know from instinct.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: NotAFanOfFenders on 06 Aug 2009, 09:30 ---What?
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You heard me.
You seem to be making a weird assumption, Johnny, that everyone, in the process of making sounds, automatically arrives at a common system of rhythms and harmonies, and this is always what sounds best to people.
Have you ever heard African or Chinese or indigenous South American music?
pwhodges:
Theory is a framework for understanding music of any and all types. You seem to be talking about what in the UK I would call "Grade V Theory", which is as limited as using a nineteenth century school grammar is when you come to analyse Joyce.
KharBevNor:
Picasso was an exceptional prodigy. He's hardly an example that holds perfectly across all forms of art. Besides which, there is no equivalent of music theory in painting whatsoever.
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