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In modern academia, music theory is a subfield of musicology, the wider study of musical cultures and history. Music theory is often concerned with abstract musical aspects such as tuning and tonal systems, scales, consonance and dissonance, and rhythmic relationships. In addition, there is also a body of theory concerning practical aspects ...
Schenkerian analysis is a method of analyzing tonal music based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker (1868–1935). The goal is to demonstrate the organic coherence of the work by showing how the "foreground" (all notes in the score) relates to an abstracted deep structure, the Ursatz. This primal structure is roughly the same for any tonal ...
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
The New System of Musical Theory (French: Nouveau système de musique théorique) published in 1726, is the second treatise on musical theory written by the composer Jean-Philippe Rameau. [1] [2] Rameau wrote the work four years after the publication of his first theoretical work, the Treatise on Harmony Reduced to its Natural Principles ...
Systematic musicology. Systematic musicology is an umbrella term, used mainly in Central Europe, for several subdisciplines and paradigms of musicology. "Systematic musicology has traditionally been conceived of as an interdisciplinary science, whose aim it is to explore the foundations of music from different points of view, such as acoustics ...
Riemannian theory, in general, refers to the musical theories of German theorist Hugo Riemann (1849–1919). His theoretical writings cover many topics, including musical logic, [1] notation, [2] harmony, [3] melody, [4] phraseology, [5] the history of music theory, [6] etc. More particularly, the term Riemannian theory often refers to his ...
The Society for Music Theory ( SMT) is an American organization devoted to the promotion, development and engagement of music theory as a scholarly and pedagogical discipline. [2] Founded in 1977 by a group of distingushed theorists, among them Allen Forte and Wallace Berry, its members are primarily theorists in North American academic ...
Music theorists. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Music theorists. Music theorists are those who study music theory. This category includes theorists from the ancient world, especially ancient Greece which was a particularly active centre of study, to the present day. Music theory is usually considered a subclassification of musicology ...