Some friends of mine took that in high school. They were in band.
I am a math, science, engineering sort of dude with some very limited visual art abilities.
I have the musical talent of a screech owl and the musical intelligence of Trump’s third shit of the week.
Every conversation they had about that class was fucking witchcraft to me. I can understand Spanish better than music theory in English... and I took Spanish for 4 years and learned JACK SHIT.
@GlytchMeister
To be fair, she's talking about college level courses. The last year / semester of undergrad theory usually gets into mid-20th century techniques that involve mathematical formulas used in composition (and analysis of music made that way).
Most of it sounds as bad as you would expect.
@voltronic
Well if high school music theory was witchcraft, I’d be willing to bet any complex math built on that foundation is gonna be goddamn R'Lyehian to me.