Antiquity
Mesopotamia
Several surviving Sumerian and Akkadian clay tablets include musical information of a theoretical nature, … 展开

Music is composed of aural phenomena; "music theory" considers how those phenomena apply in music. Music theory considers melody, rhythm, … 展开

• List of music theorists
• Music psychology
• Musicology
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• Apel, Willi; Daniel, Ralph T. (1960). The Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. ISBN 0-671-73747-3. 展开

The scholarly study of music theory in the twentieth century has a number of different subfields, each of which takes a different perspective on what are the primary phenomenon of interest … 展开

1. ^ See Boethius's De institutione musica, in which he disdains "musica instrumentalis" as beneath the "true" musician who studies music in the abstract: Multo enim est maius atque auctius scire, quod quisque faciat, quam ipsum illud efficere, quod … 展开

• Dillen, Oscar van, Outline of basic music theory (2011) 展开