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Sorry if it is bot clear. Is it a good or bad thing to teach music theory via visual depiction?

• tsimionescu 3y ago
  Bad practice. Music is auditory, so you need to focus on audio.
  • Tainnor 3y ago
    Of course, you need auditive input to study music (although interestingly medieval education would have disagreed with this). But visual depictions also help a lot with music theory. Seeing the structure of, say, a sonata's first movement visually makes it easier to understand certain aspects of it. The same is true of understanding relationships between different keys (e.g. the circle of fifths). It's not an either/or, you need both.