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Love Music but Hate Music Theory?
I have been teaching music theory since 1983 when I worked as an instructor at Indiana University while doing my graduate work. I had never intended on teaching music. I’m a composer. All I wanted to do was write music. But I fell in love with teaching music, specifically that dreaded subject, music theory. Since then, I have written three music theory textbooks. I have experienced the joy and agony of bringing music theory to life for countless students. Now you might ask, “How can you bring something as d
Any theory, whether it be science or the arts, is simply the study of that discipline’s principles as opposed to its practice. For example, there are classes in automotive theory. Basic automotive theory teaches about the different parts of an automobile and how they work. Music theory, then, teaches about the different parts of music and how they work. Back to automobiles for a moment, can you imagine studying automobile parts without actually experiencing a working automobile? Learning about, say a transm