![]() ![]() ![]() The musicological approach to theory differs from music analysis "in that it takes as its starting-point not the individual work or performance but the fundamental materials from which it is built." The first is the " rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation) the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present the third is a sub-topic of musicology that "seeks to define processes and general principles in music". The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". ![]() Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. Jubal, Pythagoras and Philolaus engaged in theoretical investigations, in a woodcut from Franchinus Gaffurius, Theorica musicæ (1492) ![]()
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