We all know that beneath the bewitching surface of music, beyond the joy or excitement or even heartache this beautiful language of sound can stir within us, lies the often mysterious realm of music theory-a complex structure of sonic and creative resources composers draw on.No matter what music we listen to-symphony or string quartet, saxophone solo or vocal ballad, hip-hop or Gregorian chant- we've felt those effects all our lives, even if we didn't know how they were achieved, or how the musical "language" those composers were using worked.
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