Do U know the Theory of Music ?

The theory of music, sometimes called as the "rudiments" ("solfege" in the USA) traditionally focus on the study of the elements of the notation of music, in other words, how it is written down. Nevertheless, it also includes underlying concepts of music such as structure, history, organization, and to some extent.

• These essential concepts are included for a number of reasons:

1. Some of the concepts of the notation of music are hard to understand without knowledge of the basic concepts; for example, the use of key signatures and accidentals is so easier to understand when the concepts of key and scales are completely understood.
2. While music and its notation has grown-up and evolved over many years (and this process is still going on), an understanding of the basic principles is helpful for understanding the reasons for things, rather than just being told "this is the way it is done".
3. To understand correctly the way notation is used in different situations, it may be necessary to know some of its history.
4. An understanding of any of the physics of music is definitely not necessary, but it is very interesting .
   

• The theory of music therefore includes the following:

• The basic rudiments of standard music notation such as staves, clefs, note lengths, note pitches, key signatures, time signatures, beats, bars (or measures), etc.
• Basic principal concepts such as scales, keys, intervals, rhythm, etc.
• More advanced elements are dynamics, phrasing (notated with slurs) etc.
• Advanced materials such as the history of notation, form, physics of scales, etc.