The Theory Behind It

Adam Finally Makes a U2 Episode

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!

Let's Argue: r/musictheory, Part 2

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.

Oursatz Rebrands!

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!

Let's Argue: r/musictheory, Part 1

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!

Oursatz Recommends...

Livi, Adam, and Seth talk about some of the stuff they've been listening to lately. This episode features a bad Joseph Gordon-Levitt joke, a follow up on Harry Potter from last week, and surely something that was on topic hopefully.
 
Here's the playlist with the favorites of our recommendations!

Oursatz Catches Up

After all the higher concept episodes we've done recently, we thought it'd be a nice change of pace to relax and have a more laidback episode this week.
 
We meander through discussion of musical notation and graphic design, the Harry Potter books and movies, presenting at an online conference, and briefly touch on some of the problems with the recent Journal of Schenkerian Studies issue.

Oursatz Drafts the Best Chord of All Time

This week we ripped off the podcast Screendrafts and competitively collaborated to find out what the best chord of all time is! The parameters were basic chords most students learn in their 2 years of music theory classes. Sevenths could be considered for each chord, but were not a separate category. The full list is below; we selected the top 11.

Let's Argue: Theory Pedagogy Edition, Part 2

We round off the debate with the final 3 questions in this Music Pedagogy edition of Let's Argue. Talking points include borrowed chords, the importance of music history, snails, and incredulously even more Schenker talk. Who wins? How biased was the host?
 
(I would like to make an addendum that this debate was recorded about 2 months before the Schenker journal controversy, therefore we were not talking about it with knowledge or relation to that.)