Dr. B! Love your videos! I always wanted to ask, what rules of music theory do we absolutely follow and not steer away from the rules much? I understood that there are rules in music theory like species counterpoint, part of which dictate which beat consonances or dissonances fall on, and I know there are ways to balance too much of it being applied, but what subject in music theory serve as a rigid foundation to all other creative endeavors of creating music?
That is an excellent and complex question. Music theory covers two areas: 1) the stylistic rules of Western European art music starting in the Baroque era (late 17th/early 18th century). These rules help you craft music in a style that has withstood the test of time (popular movies and television still include music from Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven), and captures a specific range of emotions. If you want to compose music that covers emotions outside that range and includes other cultures some of these rules will change. 2) objective rules that reflect the acoustics of sound and human perception/psychology. These include consonance and dissonance in a broad sense, principles of form (the balance of repetition and new material), etc. This is a topic that is too big for me to completely address now, but the short answer to your question is that there are no rules that can't be broken as long as you've understood the objective principles of acoustics and human perception/psychology. I know that might not be super helpful, but it is a start! Best wishes, Dr. B
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The longer Your beard is, the less new videos we have It would be nice to talk about a mysterious phenomenon called Harmonic Major/ionian b6 because there are many strange phenomena there: several rootless dominants, several different tonic chords for one degree (if we omit rule of 3th) and...where are the songs in harmonic Major? How to use it in tonal and modal music?
