On Thu, 26 Jun 2025, David LaRue wrote:
jmcs <jmcs@nowhere.invalid> wrote in news:bd184960-2fe1-cf90-997c- a75b247b979c@nowhere.invalid:
Hi everyone,
Not sure if there's anyone out there reading this, I'm pretty new to
this newsgroups thing, and this one is empty since I found it...
In any case, here it goes: I'm looking for a book I could read to fill
the gaps of my self-taught knowledge. I would say that I'm perhaps a
beginner-intermediate when it comes to music theory. But, of course, I'm
not sure of what fundamentals I might be missing.
and, since I'm here, I could go ahead and mention this free online
resource I've been reading every now and then, just in case it's of help
to anyone:
https://viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusictheory/
Maybe some of you out there with more knowledge than me can give me
your opinion on it.
Alright, if someone is there: hi! hit me with those recommendations. See
you around!
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I'm not sure what your experience level is or the desire for more information.
I use newsgroups, email, and youtube. My old system has ad blockers for everything. That being said, I've seen some interesting music theory a few weeks back on youtube. In general I never search for anything specific. I
Hi there!
funny enough, I thought I had replied to this message, but apparently
not :D
To the point: yeah, I've done this for a while. Learning something new
here and there. Arriving at some content that I don't know if I
understand or not, maybe because I'm missing something "you are
supposed" to learn beforehand...
The thing is: I'm lacking a sort of structure to base my learning on.
And at this point, I'd like to read a, hopefully, well structured book
that (quickly) covers the basics, and builds from there. Maybe that book
does not exist, and maybe it does. Reading things on the web has become,
on one hand, difficult to find (not only music information, everything),
and on the other, not very trustable (or at least, that's how I feel
these days of content fluff and LLM-generated texts.
That's why I asked particularly for a book. Preferably, printed some
time ago and vetted by people who, hopefully, know what they are talking
about. I would be incapable of judging a book's validity as much as I
can't judge whatever I find on the web...
In any case, thanks for taking the time to respond!
let YT recommend things similar to past stuff I've seen. For a while I was watching some drum set theory. I played percussion up through HS. The
lists are generally long but generally have something good to view at least part way through. For a while I was also looking at composers with various styles and ran across a lot of instrument theory. Then watched things on pipe organs of all ages and got a lot of theory from them.
If YT insists on showing stuff you don't want and may have viewed before,
say a specific composer, look in your browser searches for YT entries and remove the stuff from offending sources. After a few searches this way you'll get things usually specific to topics you've shown interest in plus some new ones.
I gave up percussion for other interests in HS like electronics and computers. Theory wasn't good for me musically until the last few years.
I'm in a few thousand newsgroups so welcome. I'm glad you asked a
question. I've not run across music theory books but I'm sure they are plentiful.
So far, I'd say that the link I shared on my first message looks good.
But also, I might be lacking enough knowledge to judge that :D
Good luck!
Thanks!
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