Logseq/Entity/Person/Maker/Music/Theory
Music Theorist
- In this garden, Music Theorist pages model a real person who makes music theory: treatises, systems of scales, modes or harmony, methods of analysis, and theory textbooks. A Music Theorist is a kind of Logseq/Entity/Person/Maker whose field is music, and the rest follows that page.
What counts as an instance
- A person whose theory is a significant part of their public identity, whether or not they made music: a theorist who named the modes or built a system of parent scales counts.
- A Music Theorist is a maker of theory. A person who also made music carries the kind of Musician that names their role as well, as a composer-theorist carries Logseq/Entity/Person/Maker/Music/Composition and Music Theorist.
Boundary cases
- A teacher whose published textbook or teaching method sets out how music is organized counts. A teacher who has published no theory, method or textbook carries only the entities for what else they make, or stays a Logseq/Entity/Person.
- A music historian, critic or ethnomusicologist writes about music, and carries only the entities for what else they make. Collecting folk songs in the field is research of this kind: a composer who collected folk songs carries Composer and leaves out Music Theorist.
- A researcher who invents a synthesis method or builds music software carries Logseq/Entity/Person/Maker/Music/Tech.
- For scales, Music Theorist is for a person who names or classifies them in writing, as Heinrich Glarean named the Ionian and Aeolian modes. A composer who builds their music on a scale or tuning carries the entities for their music: Yatsuhashi Kengyō, who is credited with the hirajōshi koto tuning and played the koto, carries Composer and Performer, and Claude Debussy, who built pieces on the whole-tone scale, carries Composer.
Works
- A treatise or textbook has a book page with
created-by:: linking the theorist's hub.