My Music Theory Page

A passion for music theory amounts to enjoying the struggle more than the results; we delight in the process of looking for answers, even though we know that no completely satisfactory answers will ever be found for any piece.

(Charles J. Smith, MTS 8, 103-104)

Music analysts are concerned with making appropriate and interesting statement about pieces.

(Charles J. Smith, "Prolongations," 139)

"a theory is like a musical instrument that one takes up to play a piece and allow it to sing,"

(Marianne Kielian-Gilbert, Music Analysis 22/1-2, 56)