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Article Evaluation
Article: Music Theory

Quality Scale: B-Class

Importance Scale: Top-importance

This article is a part of the WikiProject Music Theory.

Everything in the article is relevant to music theory. However, music theory is a broad subject so the topics and information vary wildly.

Many of the sources are decades old. This does not necessarily invalidate the information in the field of music, as the information is still relevant.

There is a surprising lack of information about jazz. Jazz is relevant when discussing music theory and deserves its own subsection in my opinion. This may be biased on my end however.

The article is neutral, having no bias towards particular people, beliefs, or genres of music. Again, I do feel that jazz in severely underrepresented. I also feel that there could be more information about the change of music theory in modern history and how music theory varies for different genres of music.

Most of the sources are books, although many are online articles. Some of the online articles work, while some of them don't.

Music is naturally more artistic in nature, so many of the sources are not as factual and more interpretive. The articles about the history of music theory and specific concepts are far less biased and more factual than articles about more esoteric music theory concepts.

The talk page doesn't have much to say. There's are sections about linguistic analysis and music theory, theory from 1750-1900, and what is "common law" and "modern law".

This whole article tended to be more broad than what I have studied for music theory which is to be expected from a Wikipedia article on such a broad topic.\

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