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main_gi | 5 years ago

That article is one of the most deeply disappointing to me - even as a composer who doesn't like traditional music theory. It starts with some criticism of traditional music theory I agree with, then goes and... reconstructs several aspects of traditional music theory anyway. Also has a common case of worship of the harmonic series but then conveniently stopping at stuff like 7:4, 7:5, and 7:6 ratios.

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geon|5 years ago

I don’t agree. It doesn’t try to refute traditional music theory, but explain why it works.