The number one thing I hate about music theory is …

[HomespunEffects]

… that parallel scales are actually relative and relative scales are actually parallel. Early cave dwelling band geeks dropped the ball naming these concepts.

 

[FuzzyAce]

Just use your ears.

 

[HomespunEffects]

 

[PLX]

 

[mbenigni]

The thing I hate about music theory is that one post can disabuse me of the notion that I know any.

 

[PLX]

The thing I hate about music theory is that one post can disabuse me of the notion that I know any.

That's why they call it music "theory".. not music "fact".

 

[Sascha Franck]

… that parallel scales are actually relative and relative scales are actually parallel. Early cave dwelling band geeks dropped the ball naming these concepts.

No idea who's guilty here, but in germany Am is the parallel minor of C major, but the english-oriented world calls it "relative" minor instead.
I happen to think of the german naming convention to be at least somewhat more logical.

 

[bucephalus]

Didn't you start that nuts thread not long ago about things being in the wrong key?

I fear this may head the same way

 

[HomespunEffects]

Didn't you start that nuts thread not long ago about things being in the wrong key?

I fear this may head the same way

Yes. I was wrong traditionally but I’m still going to argue that it should have been said A Mixolydian instead of A Major.

This thread is actually a joke though but it’s a good one.

 

[la szum]

"The map is not the territory."

~~Alfred Korzybski

Some maps are more accurate representations of the actual territory than others are. But no map is
the actual territory it is meant to represent and model.

 

[HomespunEffects]

No idea who's guilty here, but in germany Am is the parallel minor of C major, but the english-oriented world calls it "relative" minor instead.
I happen to think of the german naming convention to be at least somewhat more logical.

See, that makes way more sense.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Yes. I was wrong traditionally but I’m still going to argue that it should have been said A Mixolydian instead of A Major.

This thread is actually a joke though but it’s a good one.

 

[HomespunEffects]

The thing I hate about music theory is that one post can disabuse me of the notion that I know any.

I bet you know more than you think.

The stodgy, old, white tower dwellers like to make it more complicated than it is. It keeps them in their tenured positions.

 

[Ed DeGenaro]

I bet you know more than you think.

The stodgy, old, white tower dwellers like to make it more complicated than it is. It keeps them in their tenured positions.

Are those the tower dwellers that gave us Dunning Kruger?

 

[PLX]

Are those the tower dwellers that gave us Dunning Kruger?

She was great in "Inglourious Basterds".

 

[TSJMajesty]

She was great in "Inglourious Basterds".

*bastards

 

[PLX]

*bastards

 

[HomespunEffects]

Are those the tower dwellers that gave us Dunning Kruger?

Ugh.

 

[Sascha Franck]

*bastards

Inglourious Basterds (2009) ⭐ 8.4 | Adventure, Drama, War

2h 33m | 16

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[Sascha Franck]

"The map is not the territory."

~~Alfred Korzybski

Some maps are more accurate representations of the actual territory than others are. But no map is
the actual territory it is meant to represent and model.

This is actually describing large portions of musicology (or nomenclature, whatever...) quite well.