Toward a Better Music Theory (2013)

Re:Toward a Better Music Theory (2013) by ybroze on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:27PM (#32372170)

Coming from this field personally, this feels like typical Temperley and de Clerq sorts of things. Davie Temperley was in David Huron's lab once upon a time, I believe.

The systematic musicology world, especially the portion doing corpus studies, often is just doing descriptive research. The article linked is a bit more prescriptive.

The best book on music theory ever written, IMO, is David Huron's "Voice Leading -- The Science Behind a Musical Art." Definitely recommend.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08BT17M4S/ref=dbs_a_def_r...

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Re:Toward a Better Music Theory (2013) by ybroze on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:28PM (#32372178)

This article is about "we should change things because we know more!" Huron has always been more about "we should know more!"

For me, I'm with the latter.

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Re:Toward a Better Music Theory (2013) by ybroze on Saturday August 06, 2022 @06:29PM (#32372186)

This is my corpus study. https://online.ucpress.edu/mp/article-abstract/31/1/32/62590...

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