Yep (2). It diverts people from creating more value to others - unless of course their written work is outstanding, which is rare.

Mine dilligently practice the theremin every afternoon

Yes, modal music :)

Beautiful :)

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Nice, bringing that to my classroom tomorrow before teaching post-tonal analysis

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I love it!

Thanks for sharing, I am very interested on that subject, and also on reimagining music theory teaching with more active approaches with technogy. I am building a software for that actually, and looking for more testers!