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Originally Posted by JonPR
So yes - "theory" is a crucial element, and forms part of all music learning. The differences from genre to genre are simply in how that theory is learned. Sometimes it's from books. Sometimes it's by ear. Sometimes it's entirely learned by ear. Even when books play a part, aural learning is essential for making sense of the books. You can't understand music by reading books. You have to hear it.
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You can't understand music by just hearing it either you have to read books too.
Medieval monks wrote music to be be sung by choirs trained to sing early musical notation.
Gregorian chant pre- dated harmony but the melodies were composed using predefined modes, thus church music in the medieval period is considered the begining of music theory in Western history.
Gregorian Chant was sung not just in monasteries but in churches too, if church music influenced secular music and church music was composed and notated by the professionals of the day then it must be true that music theory has influenced traditional music.
If you were not familliar with the traditional Irish song She Moved Through The Fair and you heard it for the first time translated to Latin and sung in a monestery or chuch would you not believe you were listening to Gregorian Chant? Because I would.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWIkMu...OAr1bA&index=4