What is music theory?- Sunil Shrestha

What is music theory?

The global passport for communication today is music. It is often told that music is land without borders. But what determines that music is good or bad. The reasonable arguments to support good quality of music could be:- 

• What kind of music we would like to hear preferably our taste and preferences
• what we perceive what music we like
• what is the language of music

Music theory

Music theory is the understanding the language of music.The main thing to know about music theory is that it is simply a way to explain the music we hear. It is not necessary that a good musician cant be born without the knowledge of music.In fact, if you are a good musician, you already know a lot of theory.

The concepts and rules that make up music theory are very much like the grammatical rules that govern written language.Being able to transcribe music makes it possible for other musicians to read and play compositions exactly as the composer intended. Learning to read music is almost exactly like learning a new language, to the point where a fluent person can “hear” a musical “conversation” when reading a piece of sheet music. Broadly, music theory may include any statement, belief, or conception of or about music.

There are plenty of intuitive, self-taught musicians out there who have never learned to read or write music and find the whole idea of learning music theory tedious and unnecessary. However, just like the educational leaps that can come with learning to read and write, music theory can help musicians learn new techniques, perform unfamiliar styles of music, and develop the confidence to try new things.

Thus,  learning to play and understand music takes a lot of personal discipline, but in the end, it's worth all the hard work.