• Ephera
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    68 months ago

    Well, I’d say, it’s only not strictly necessary for small-scale good music. I do think for an orchestra score (or a novel or a Sistine Chapel), you do need to know what you’re doing, because there’s so many variable parts that have to work together…

    • Sneezycat
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      8 months ago

      You don’t need to know what you’re doing, but it’s certainly a heck of a lot easier to understand why your harmony doesn’t work if you know what a tonic and a dominant and subdominant are. It saves you time and allows you to write more purposefully.