Music Theory

The manner in which music theory has been traditionally taught is now in a state of flux. Originally, the study of music theory was designed to acquaint the music student or knowledgeable amateur with the composer’s working materials in “Classical” music roughly spanning the 17th- through the 19th Centuries. The role of music theory has expanded far beyond this mandate: theory training now incorporates greater or lesser explanations of music after 1900, music before 1600, idiomatic Jazz practices, elements of World Music, and Popular Song idioms.
Such an expansion of means and methods in learning and teaching the fundamental
language of music presents a formidable and almost daunting challenge: what to
teach, how to teach it, and in what sequence

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2012

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