Dr. David Bashwiner
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So that exists for music, too.
There is a grammar...
to how composers put things together.
And even if you're just like singing to your dog or something like that, and like you make up a song, you basically end up following this grammar that's there.
So it's sort of like making visible this meshwork of relations that exists.
That's what music theory is.
I think it's like the deepest level.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No, I mean, well, the reason I like to think about music in a biological sense is not just looking at the music of our culture or something like that.
And even just like not looking at what humans do.
There's four basic templates for rhythms that exist.
And it's cool.
There's this theorist named Tink Torres in the 1450s, 1470s.
And he came up with these symbols.
It's a circle with a dot in it, circle with no dot, half circle with a dot, and half circle with no dot.
Okay.
The half circle with no dot still exists today.
And we call it, it looks like a C.
And so we say that's common time.