Bruce K H Kau wrote:
At 04:26 PM 2/10/2005 +0100, Daniel Wolf wrote:
There is a tremendous fear of music theory out there, with many musicians having the sense that music-theoretic discourse "kills the magic" of music making.
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*sigh* I have run into more than my share of people who even say that learning to read music (music theory at its most basic level) is not important to their being able to make music. Trouble is, these people often have better chops that I do (not that hard to achieve).
Those kinds of people, though, often get quite defensive and offensive when you put a piece of music in front of them and suggest that you and they play that piece next.
If reading music were truly unimportant, they wouldn't get so defensive about not being able to read it and wouldn't be so offensive in accusing you of trying to trip them up and how people who believe in music theory just invented it so as to be a roadblock to the "real" musicians of the world. (I've actually heard some people say that!)
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