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>This isn't "music theory" (although almost everyone thinks it is). Isn't that how language works though? If everyone calls this music theory aside from a smal
by squeaky-clean 12y ago
>This isn't "music theory" (although almost everyone thinks it is).
Isn't that how language works though? If everyone calls this music theory aside from a small minority of people, then it is music theory. "Music Theory" as a term is a study on it's own, it's not "the theory of music" and you can't really use the terms interchangeably like that.
- laumars 12y ago> Isn't that how language works though? If everyone calls this music theory aside from a small minority of people, then it is music theory. That's not really how language works in specialist fields though. For example "theory" and "proof" mean different things in science than they do to the general public (which is part of the reason why the general public misunderstand science so much). Or, for a more relevant example, the problems with how the term "hacker" is misunderstood.