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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
what good does it do you two knowing music theory?
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It's not something you know, it's something you do.
Music theory has made me a better performer, composer, and listener. And practicing music theory proper also is just really fun (like val-holla said)--it's a way of interacting with music that gives me great satisfaction and pleasure.
But music theory as a term is a wide umbrella. Dismissing the academic discipline doesn't bother me; I can understand how people could see it as just a bunch of wankery. On the other hand, music theory the term also encompasses
rudiments or
fundamentals of music, which everyone who has any interest in music should understand, period.