What is music theory? What does the theory say about music?
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You can learn to speak and understand a language by living there for a couple of years.
Music theory is like learning the grammar of that language. It’s not strictly needed for listening/understanding or even playing/speaking, but deepens you’re understanding and makes it all generalizable knowledge to be applied elsewhere (on other instruments/in other languages).
Only difference: you can read language without understanding grammar. You can’t read or write music without understanding music theory.
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