Dissertation

Study Group

Music Theory

Genres

Research Methods

Harmony

Consonance and Dissonance

Chord Structures

Education

Can formal music theory education be
learnt through experience composing music?

UK Bass Music

Drum and Bass

Garage

Grime

Bassline

Undergraduate Producers

UK Based

Commercial Producers

Amateur Producers

Qualititive

Quantititive

Surveys

Interviews

Get two artists to compose a song, one with theory knowledge and one without

Focus groups or surveys to talk about the comparison

Question

Can undergraduate students, who are composers of UK bass music, enhance their productions with a knowledge of complex harmony and consonance?

Complex Harmony/ Chord Creation

Replace "UK bass music" with a sub genre to be more precise? (see Genres)

What are their opinions on this?

What counts as theory education?

Formal (Theory Grades, Music studies etc...)

Through Music Performance

Through Composition

Definition of enhance?

Commercial Success

Instrumentation

Mix Quality?

Dubstep

Studying Music?

Or Production?

Of Producers

Of Fans

Of Producers

Of Fans

Of Producers

Of Fans

Of General Musicians

Of Random People?

Direct measurement of preference of two comparing tracks