tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776799.post4695780000561444639..comments2019-08-30T06:08:13.223-07:00Comments on Sean McGrath: It all boils down to thisSean McGrathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17729925642255386855noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776799.post-11776248832325605512014-12-15T01:24:53.208-08:002014-12-15T01:24:53.208-08:00Music Theory tries to differentiate between differ...Music Theory tries to differentiate between different *types* of things. In western music, the biggest type system is the concept of keys. So, we have this big theory corpus about how keys can explain musical forms...but much of the interesting stuff - take blues for example, or Irish Traditional Music - breaks the type system.<br />So you end up with a taxonomy that says something like this:<br />"music splits into two types: the type that works cos people clearly like it, and the type that doesn't"<br />Having a type system that fails to enumerate all the types and allows for the type field to be *anything* can thus either be because the designer has not thought it through to find the enumeration of types *OR* because the design has thought it through and concluded than no bounded type system is in fact. possible.Sean McGrathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17729925642255386855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3776799.post-45468417326072561552014-12-12T18:36:33.714-08:002014-12-12T18:36:33.714-08:00Thanks for leaving out the angle brackets. My are ...Thanks for leaving out the angle brackets. My are are hurting from the work week.<br /><br />Curiously, what is the application to music?Dan Sickleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08521707575319366335noreply@blogger.com