Music theory | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-27

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00:04:54 1 History
00:05:03 1.1 Prehistory
00:05:29 1.2 Antiquity
00:05:38 1.2.1 Mesopotamia
00:06:26 1.2.2 China
00:11:05 1.2.3 India
00:11:45 1.2.4 Greece
00:14:28 1.3 Middle Ages
00:14:37 1.3.1 China
00:15:24 1.3.2 Arabic countries / Persian countries
00:18:22 1.3.3 Europe
00:21:18 1.4 Modern
00:21:26 1.4.1 China
00:21:34 1.4.2 Arabic countries
00:22:39 1.4.3 Europe
00:22:47 1.4.3.1 Renaissance
00:22:55 1.4.3.2 Baroque
00:23:02 1.4.3.3 1750–1900
00:24:26 1.5 Contemporary
00:24:34 2 Fundamentals of music
00:25:17 2.1 Pitch
00:28:01 2.2 Scales and modes
00:31:37 2.3 Consonance and dissonance
00:33:14 2.4 Rhythm
00:34:33 2.5 Melody
00:35:37 2.6 Chord
00:37:56 2.7 Harmony
00:39:43 2.8 Timbre
00:42:35 2.8.1 Dynamics
00:44:46 2.8.2 Articulation
00:46:48 2.9 Texture
00:48:53 2.10 Form or structure
00:50:02 2.11 Expression
00:51:58 2.12 Notation
00:54:10 3 Music theory as academic discipline
00:54:38 3.1 Analysis
00:59:07 3.2 Music perception and cognition
00:59:45 3.3 Genre and technique
01:01:42 3.4 Mathematics
01:05:50 3.5 Serial composition and set theory
01:08:19 3.6 Musical semiotics
01:11:08 3.7 Education and careers
01:13:41 4 See also
01:18:12 5 Notes
01:18:33 6 Sources
01:18:42 7 Further reading
01:18:51 8 External links
01:19:00 External links



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Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory":

The first is what is otherwise called 'rudiments', currently taught as the elements of notation, of key signatures, of time signatures, of rhythmic notation, and so on. [...] The second is the study of writings about music from ancient times onwards. [...] The third is an area of current musicological study that seeks to define processes and general principles in music — a sphere of research that can be distinguished from analysis in that it takes as its starting-point not the individual work or performance but the fundamental materials from which it is built.
Music theory is frequently concerned with describing how musicians and composers make music, including tuning systems and composition methods among other topics. Because of the ever-expanding conception of what constitutes music (see Definition of music), a more inclusive definition could be that music theory is the consideration of any sonic phenomena, including silence, as they relate to music. This is not an absolute guideline; for example, the study of "music" in the Quadrivium liberal arts university curriculum that was common in medieval Europe was an abstract system of proportions that was carefully studied at a distance from actual musical practice. However, this medieval discipline became the basis for tuning systems in later centuries, and it is generally included in modern scholarship on the history of music theory.Music theory as a practical discipline encompasses the methods and concepts composers and other musicians use in creating music. The development, preservation, and transmission of music theory in this sense may be found in oral and written music-making traditions, musical instruments, and other artifacts. For example, ancient instruments from Mesopotamia, China, and prehistoric sites around the world reveal details about the music they produced and potentially something of the musical theory that might have been used by their makers (see History of music and Musical instrument). In ancient and living cultures around the world, the deep and long roots of music theory are clearly visible in instruments, oral traditions, and current music making. Many cultures, at least as far back as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient China, have also considered music theory in more formal ways such as writte ...