Everybody should learn music theory in general and intensive music theory for musical people and mostly for musicians! I am a musician love classical music and can sing to you some parts of symphonies and concerts but I played my bass guitar and sang lead or harmonies in my band! Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the very best! But I did not need music theory! I just played by ear! Thank you for your fabulous program!
Jethro Tull is the name of the band. The flautists name is Ian Anderson. I see music theory and standard western notation as completely separate. Ancient China had music theory long before the west had written notation. As did ancient india. I've always thought of music theory as the study of how music works. Not how we represent the music on a page. That's why there are several ways to represent music on a page, even though they are discussing the same ideas.
I recently discovered the Chinese guqin (ancient qin.) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guqin. Look at those dots! I lost half a day staring at them, with the mind-set of a guitarist, unable to work out what was going on. This instrument is practical mathematics. The dots show some of the harmonic series. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_series_(music)
this was a good session. I started learning piano about 15 months ago and right from the start I began learning theory. I do know the difference between theory and notation and as Mike stated theory is for people who want to create which I hope to do at some point. I have started writing some lyrics and am a far way off from full verses and a chorus. Theory will get me there with a melody and chords to back it up as I proceed with this slowly.
