Music+Theory

Well, I'm still thinking about the greatest theory ever, but this one's easy. The coolest theory ever is music theory, I mean, duh. Is there anyone not passionate about analyzing music, really trying to get inside what makes a great piece great? Ending up with the deepest of appreciation, often awe for how a piece works, and yet at the same time having been made painfully/joyfully aware that there's more to it, that there's an element that's indescribable, that it is not given to mortals to fully understand such works of genius. What could be cooler than that? It engages the intellect and the emotions in the strongest and most fulfilling of ways, and keeps one humble at the same time, WHICH, in so doing satisfies the need so many of us humans seem to have for belief and faith in something greater than ourselves. In fact, think I'll have to consider whether music theory might just be the greatest theory ever as well as the coolest, maybe greater even than the theory of intelligent design. Hmmm... more later,