Music Theory Thread?

[venjacques]

For all of those who are interested in the language and concepts of written music and its art form, can we open a main thread about music theory to provide a place for forum members to question and learn about theory from other members?

Thanks

[Janszoon]

Are you doing this for the purpose of promoting your book?

[venjacques]

No. But thanks for viewing.

I'm a theory teacher and am surprised that a music website has open discussions about many subjects, but doesn't have a theory section. Or is this website designed just to talk ABOUT music in a general sense but not teach anything as far as musicianship goes?

Banter can be seen as just a community with discussion. But I'm thinking there must be some musicians that come here that have a theory question, but no place to post it. I bet this forum would get that much more traffic if it was a place to gossip, review, AND learn.

[Janszoon]

Originally Posted by venjacques

No. But thanks for viewing.

I'm a theory teacher and am surprised that a music website has open discussions about many subjects, but doesn't have a theory section. Or is this website designed just to talk ABOUT music in a general sense but not teach anything as far as musicianship goes?

Banter can be seen as just a community with discussion. But I'm thinking there must be some musicians that come here that have a theory question, but no place to post it. I bet this forum would get that much more traffic if it was a place to gossip, review, AND learn.

This site is really more about listening to music than making it (though a decent number of us do make music), but if you want to make a theory thread go for it.

[Paedantic Basterd]

You be our guest and go ahead then.

[Burning Down]

I don't think there are enough people here who read and write music well enough to merit such a thread. Or to be able to answer complex questions regarding music theory. I honestly doubt that there are people here who could tell me what Phrygian II harmonization is, even in layman's terms, without looking it up first on Google.

Also, I find that people who are music students and who need to take classes in music theory often already have a support network in real life that they can go to if they need help with homework. When I need help with my music homework, I will often go to my boyfriend first with my questions and we can work out the solutions together, before I go to post a question about it online.

[GuitarBizarre]

Originally Posted by Burning Down

I don't think there are enough people here who read and write music well enough to merit such a thread. Or to be able to answer complex questions regarding music theory. I honestly doubt that there are people here who could tell me what Phrygian II harmonization is, even in layman's terms, without looking it up first on Google.

Also, I find that people who are music students and who need to take classes in music theory often already have a support network in real life that they can go to if they need help with homework. When I need help with my music homework, I will often go to my boyfriend first with my questions and we can work out the solutions together, before I go to post a question about it online.

Lets be honest here, I'm finishing up a music degree and I have no idea what that is without looking it up

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Lets be honest here, I'm finishing up a music degree and I have no idea what that is without looking it up

No worries, I'm also finishing up a music degree and had no idea what it was until 3 months ago!

[Bloozcrooz]

Is theory really all that beneficial to ones music capabilitys? Is it necessary to be able to able to write,play, and sing music?

[Burning Down]

Originally Posted by Bloozcrooz

Is theory really all that beneficial to ones music capabilitys? Is it necessary to be able to able to write,play, and sing music?

I think for a musician like myself, yes, knowing theory can be really beneficial. But for a garden variety guitar player, no it's not necessary to know all the ins and outs of music notation.

Originally Posted by venjacques

Suppose if someone asks "How do you make a major triad?" and then (in the same thread), someone asks "If I'm in Bb dorian and I want to modulate to Db major, how could I do that?", might that be confusing if in the same thread?

No, because I have the ability to answer two separate questions. I don't see how it would be confusing to have two questions that are of a similar topic in the same thread.