Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory?

Re:Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory? by sdwr on Sunday August 21, 2022 @07:31PM (#32545570)

Just like everyone else, I love baiting questions designed to provoke engagement..

I heard a small child playing giant wind chimes (?) at the park today. She had fully-formed musical taste, as far as I could tell, and sounded really good. It helped that the instrument was easy to make good tone with, but all the pieces were there. Tension, release, playing around the root note, rhythm.

Music is the intersection of sound and us.

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Re:Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory? by InCityDreams on Monday August 22, 2022 @04:56AM (#32548982)

Pentatonically tuned? I enjoy showing people that "can't play" that just using the black notes on a piano can be pretty enlightening. A sense of rhythm, sometimes however....

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Re:Did Bach “invent” the rules of music theory? by sdwr on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:42PM (#32555455)

I'm pretty sure there was a full scale in there!

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