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Old 11-08-2012, 07:56 AM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Euronomus View Post
Just remember this, The rules of harmony you learn in a music theory class were a discovery, not an invention. Harmony is all about how waveforms overlap and even if you don't learn all the rules, or purposely try and break the ones you know, you're still following the rules of harmony because they are really laws of physics.
Great post.

I guess it could be said that we didn't invent the laws of music, we observed and took note of them.

But then again, I guess the laws were based around what sounded "good" or "right", and that's completely subjective. Or is it?
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