Explanations
Music theory seeks to answer "how?" and "why?" questions.
Relationships
Music theory seeks to understand balance, temporal proportion, retrospective hearing, and how events in one part of a piece are affected by or affect events in another part, balance.
Comparisons
Music theory seeks to reveal similarities and differences between sections, between details, or between one whole piece.
Connections
Music theory seeks to understand process, change, and motion and the casual logic behind the alliances between what came before and what led towards what comes next.
Patterns
Music theory seeks to discover the relation of part to whole, thereby aiding recognition of predictability and novelty.
Informs
Music theory informs how we think about music, how we learn, how we listen to music, and how we perform music; it allows us to extract more from each piece.
What is the study of music theory?
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Group classes available on Sundays from May 4 from $340 per 10-week term.
Your teacher, Sarah Bugeja, holds two bachelor's degrees in music from The University of Malta and Berklee College of Music, Boston, where Sarah tutored theory, ear training, arrangement, and conducting, as well as a master's degree in music from The New School, New York.
Sarah develops the courses in consultation with the Academy Director, who holds a Bachelor's degree in music from the University of Western Australia (First Class Hons), and three postgraduate degrees in educational leadership and education design, and is a multi-award-winning former UWA lecturer of music theory and current Australian Music Examination Board.