LogFAQs > #945985492

you're... sorta on the right track with this?

"music theory", like a dictionary, is descriptive rather than prescriptive. when people create new music using new concepts, the theory develops new language to describe those concepts. contemporary music still uses music theory, and sometimes it uses theoretical concepts that are also found in baroque- and classical-era music from europe.

that being said, the way it's taught does... leave much to be desired. it's not because it's "still taught in the form it was created in the 1800s by white Europeans" though -- the history of how it developed is a little more complicated and nuanced than that (though it does, in fact, have white supremacy at its core)

Adam Neely's video on the subject is really well-done:
https://youtu.be/Kr3quGh7pJA

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