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Some of the words in music theory are just straight latin, or directly descendant from latin and old. A lot of people struggle with music theory until you "tran
by mabub24 5y ago
Some of the words in music theory are just straight latin, or directly descendant from latin and old. A lot of people struggle with music theory until you "translate" it to using modern language (though you do lose some specificity in some cases). Like "ritardando", which is just "slow down", or accelerando, which is, you guessed it, "speed up".
You can also use arcane.
- namarie 5y agoI think most of it is Italian instead of Latin, including your two examples.
- yakubin 5y agoItalian, not Latin. Italian is the language of music. Italy used to be the capital of European music. That's where it comes from. I also wouldn't classify it as mere "theory". It's basic notation that appears in notes. Calling it "theory" is like calling control flow constructs in Pascal (the language) "theory".
- noobly 5y agoIt's called music theory though? I agree it's a bad name, but that's what it's called..
- chuchana 5y agoIt is. This video argues it would be more accurate to call it the harmonic style of 18th century European musicians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA