| Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. |
La teoría de la música es el estudio de las prácticas y las posibilidades de la música. |
| Music theory is frequently concerned with describing how musicians and composers make music, including tuning systems and composition methods among other topics. |
La teoría musical frecuentemente se centra en describir cómo los músicos y compositores crean música, incluyendo sistemas de afinación y métodos de composición, entre otros temas. |
| Because of the ever-expanding conception of what constitutes music (see Definition of music), a more inclusive definition could be that music theory is the consideration of any sonic phenomena, including silence, as they relate to music. |
A causa de la muy expandida concepción de lo que constituye la música (ver la definición de música), una definición más inclusiva sería que la teoría musical es la consideración de todo fenómeno sonoro, incluyendo el silencio, y cómo se relaciona con la música. |
| This is not an absolute guideline; for example, the study of "music" in the Quadrivium liberal arts university curriculum that was common in medieval Europe was an abstract system of proportions that was carefully studied at a distance from actual musical practice. |
Esta no es una regla absoluta; por ejemplo, el estudio de la "música" en el plan de estudios de la Universidad Quadrivium Liberal Arts que era muy común en la Europa medieval era un sistema abstracto de proporciones cuidadosamente estudiada a distancia desde la práctica musical.
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| However, this medieval discipline became the basis for tuning systems in later centuries, and it is generally included in modern scholarship on the history of music theory. |
No obstante, esta disciplina medieval se convirtió en la base del sistema de afinación en siglos ulteriores, y generalmente, se incluye en el sistema educativo moderno en la historia de la teoría musical. |
| Music theory as a practical discipline encompasses the methods and concepts composers and other musicians use in creating music. |
La teoría musical es una disciplina práctica que compagina los métodos y los conceptos que utilizan compositores y músicos para crear música. |
| The development, preservation, and transmission of music theory in this sense may be found in oral and written music-making traditions, musical instruments, and other artifacts. |
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| For example, ancient instruments from Mesopotamia, China, and prehistoric sites around the world reveal details about the music they produced and potentially something of the musical theory that might have been used by their makers (see History of music and Musical instrument). |
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| In ancient and living cultures around the world, the deep and long roots of music theory are clearly visible in instruments, oral traditions, and current music making. |
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| Many cultures, at least as far back as ancient Mesopotamia and ancient China, have also considered music theory in more formal ways such as written treatises and music notation. |
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| Practical and scholarly traditions overlap, as many practical treatises about music place themselves within a tradition of other treatises, which are cited regularly just as scholarly writing cites earlier research. |
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