Thread: Music Theory is Biased

Originally Posted by Isaac Blackburn

But is it right or wrong? should be our only consideration.

Schenker, for example, saw an analogy between the domination of the tonic over the other tones and the domination of the white race over the others...but it does not mean that a hierarchical relationship is not the best way to describe tonal structure.

So why do we need the analogy? That should be the consideration.

Originally Posted by millionrainbows

So why do we need the analogy? That should be the consideration.

There is no analogy. The tones are subject in varying degrees to the 1st scale degree, in that the triads built upon them are understood in relation to the tonic, feel its influence even after long stretches of time, and gravitate towards it. This is a hierarchical relationship, with the vertical being stability.

The communal language of music that all musicians share - that is, the language of scales, theory, and intervals that we all use when explaining or communicating music - really has nothing to do with any instrument other than the piano, or with any other paradigm than "the music of white European males of the 18th-19th centuries.

Don't scream. It looks desperate. But I guess that since nobody is having this crap on other threads you also want to dominate, you're hoping that at least the theory crowd can be bludgeoned into submission. How about red print next time? You have some experience with that mode of intimidation.

By coincidence, I watched a video by that guy yesterday - the Worst Jazz Solo Ever. Biased theory is malarkey. Color for you, Woodduck . Composers of any stripe/dot/plaid are free to utilize theory practices from any source. What the audience decides to enjoy is up to the audience.

Originally Posted by david johnson

By coincidence, I watched a video by that guy yesterday - the Worst Jazz Solo Ever. Biased theory is malarkey. Color for you, Woodduck . Composers of any stripe/dot/plaid are free to utilize theory practices from any source. What the audience decides to enjoy is up to the audience.

I experienced a lot of backwash when I espoused some ideas based on jazz. A lot of the theory thinkers in this forum cannot think objectively or outside the box, when it comes to various harmonic ideas. Once they learn the orthodox name for something, they are attached to it exclusively, and will attack any idea they see as an attack on this way of thinking.
George Russell's Lydian Chromatic Theory is a good example. When I showed that, harmonically, the C Lydian scale is more consonant than the C major scale (because of the placement of the tritone B-F in relation to the root C), this was dismissed as "nonsense" by Woodduck and EdwardBast.

Hello,
What a lovely video.

Originally Posted by Phil loves classical

Music theory is racist, and so is the English language and math. Abolish schools.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifes...010-story.html

Unfortunately home schooling is also racist. But so is no education at all. The sad truth is that existence itself is racist. So is nonexistence. Even black holes have white holes oppressing them. Music theory is the least of our worries.