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Of course they teach those things in "music class". They teach them in music theory class at university level for a start. You're creating a strawman. Just loo
by russellallen 16y ago
Of course they teach those things in "music class". They teach them in music theory class at university level for a start. You're creating a strawman.
Just look at the Wikipedia entry on tuning, for example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_tuning
Do you think that was all created by non-musicians while 'most of the finest musicians in history' cowered in the corner afraid of the magic being broken?
- jtheory 16y agoI remember studying this right near the beginning of freshman music theory in university. It's also at the beginning of a more than one basic music theory textbook. We covered it more deeply (including, gasp, math) in a higher-level electronic music class. It's probably true that many fine musicians won't think much about the mathematical side of music very often at all (practically speaking, this knowledge is not necessary to master an instrument), but certainly anyone who's gone through an academic music education will have covered it, quite possibly more than once.