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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 04:38:50 JST mcc

   I learned music theory wrong. Everything I know has to do with mathematical relationships between frequencies and then actual composers show up and they've got Vocabulary and they're using roman numerals and stuff and I'm like "oh no"

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     JimmyChezPants (jpaskaruk@growers.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 04:40:56 JST JimmyChezPants

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     @mcc

     Have you heard about the dire compromises made by piano tuners? It is a devil's bargain, Orwellian mathematics to which we are so inured that our ears are twisted into believing a lie.

     That being said, IF you are interested in a solid recommendation for internalizing the sacralized opinions of 18th Century aristocrat-chasing European musicians, might I suggest that you dedicate fifty or so hours to my personal musical Yoda, Dr. B.

     https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw9t0oA3fHkxx1PgYpiXrMUPXaOiwh6KU

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 04:41:26 JST mcc

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly yeah but also the interesting stuff like "how i make four part harmony" and "i just repeated my cool sounding riff four times. now what?" is only written in the millennia of legacy vocabulary

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     clarity flowers (clarity@xoxo.zone)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 05:12:56 JST clarity flowers

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     @mcc talking about western music as an art form using the underlying math and frequencies is kind of like trying to talk animal behavior by simulating their by simulating their individual particles. It's not just that they're "historical terms", it's they they operate on a higher plane of abstraction.