Re:Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?
by analog31 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:53PM
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We don't know. From what I've read, we know a little bit about early theory, but don't know precisely what scales and intervals they were talking about.
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Re:Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?
by mmcclimon on Sunday August 21, 2022 @06:40PM
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We know quite a lot about Greek music theory (Thomas Mathiesen's Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity in the Middle Ages is the go-to source here: https://archive.org/details/mathiesen-1999-apollos-lyre/page...). Of course we don't have recordings, but we do have a solid understanding of the theory, and some very good guesses as to the scales and intervals.