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Your musical intuition has become a part of you through your experience and, indeed, is one of the most valuable gifts in your possession. The study of music theory interacts with intuition—honing, sharpening, and enhancing
This chapter introduces music theory as a practice that has been undertaken in Europe and Asia for many centuries, and defines it as a set of generalizations about musical sound, works, and (occasionally) composition or performance practice.
An analysis is words about music1 [not musicians (=musicology) or instruments (=organology) or manuscripts (=pa- leography) or musical cultures (=ethnomusicology) or the physics of music (acoustics) etc.].
17 sie 2017 · Learn about etudes and their role in music theory for pianists.
Musical notes, like all sounds, are made of sound waves. The sound waves that make musical notes are very evenly-spaced waves, and the qualities of these regular waves - for example how big they are or how far apart they are - a ect the sound of the note. A note can be high or low, depending on how often (how frequently)
The resources in this e-book include video lectures and their transcripts, as well as supporting text explanations, examples and illustrations. The materials introduce topics such as the organisation of discrete pitches into scales and intervals, and temporal organisation of musical sounds as duration, in rhythm and metre.
6 sty 2015 · Using a range of methods, from philosophical and historical contextualizations to cognitive and systematic approaches, and across a range of repertories, these essays aim to convey a fuller understanding of the terms music theorists employ every day in teaching and research.
