The Theory Behind It

It's the final episode of this season of TTBI! And what better than a holiday themed episode to close out the year. In this episode, Seth, Livi, and Adam collaborate to draft and rank the 11 best Christmas songs ever. It gets a little heated, but hopefully some of your favorites made it on. Let us know what got robbed and what we forgot to include! 

TTBI is gonna take some time off, but you'll hear from us soon in 2021. Happy Holidays!

Welcome back to our...music theory podcast? Where we spend an inordinate amount of time discussing early to mid 2000s Disney animated films? 

As we wrap up season 2 of the podcast, we investigate our Spotify Wrappeds to see what the algorithm decided we were into this year. Who spent the most time listening? Who found the most new artists? Can you name the second to last traditionally animated film made by Disney Animation Studios?

Coming at you, hot off the press: it's a new episode of Let's Argue! This week, Seth has devised questions about the role of music theory from elementary to high school music programs. Who will come out on top? Did those music ed degrees pay off? Find out this week!

As promised in the last episode, Adam has prepared a brief introduction to the music of the masked madman himself, MF DOOM. Enjoy hearing about the twisty, overlapping personas, as well as Adam's incredulity at Seth and Livi's favorite tracks.

Follow along with the episode playlist!

Hey, everybody! Bit late on this one ("a bit"), but the good news is you get an episode on rap music today and another one tomorrow! This episode was supposed to come out last Friday, but kept getting delayed. Check here again tomorrow for this week's normally scheduled episode.

In this episode, TTBI reads and discusses Kyle Adams' recent Music Theory Online article on phrases in rap music. He describes various levels phrases can exist or be implied at, and develops discourse on what a phrase even is.

https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.adams.html

In some form or another, each of us came up with a potential thesis idea for our master's that just didn't pan out. So today, we're talking about these ideas, what the complications or problems were, and how we ended up with what we did write!

Yes, it's true. Time has caught up with the podcast and Adam has enforced his will against the show. In this week's episode, Adam and special guest his father draft the top 9 U2 albums of all time. It's another Screendrafts rip-off for the ages!

Seth and Adam's battle to not lose every Let's Argue they've debated in comes to a close! Find out who takes home the gold (or the silver or something, I dunno, It's not a great metaphor). We answer more of your questions from r/musictheory, and hopefully come out as friends.

Just announcing the new name for the podcast, The Theory Behind It. We feel it's a much better name for actually sharing and talking about the podcast, and we're excited to see what comes next!

After a break last week (oops), Livi has prepared a Let's Argue of her own, this time featuring questions gathered from the music theory subreddit. Will Adam maintain his sanity? Will Seth or Adam will break their Let's Argue curse? Will Livi somehow win another Let's Argue as moderator? All this and more in this week's episode of Oursatz!