Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus, often in the form of an approved ruling on an issue.
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Proposal to designate a canonical "how to modulate" post
We get a significant number of "how to I modulate from X to Y" questions such as Modulate from a minor to D major. I propose that these are all duplicates of How many types of modulation are ...
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Should I ask (and eventually answer) a possibly opinion-based about an intrinsically ambiguous topic?
I was going to write (and eventually answer) a question about best practices in writing percussion parts for an orchestral ensemble, as I've seen some questions here and elsewhere dealing with such ...
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Is the Community Bot trying to take over the world?
I just noticed a couple of times recently in which the Community Bot acted swiftly and decisively when I would have expected a more protracted process.
First, I noticed an answer that had been "...
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2023 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #3 on Music: Practice & Theory has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderator is:
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I suggest eliminating tag "fingerstyle-violin"
This has bugged me for a while, but I don't have the privilege to edit tags. There's a tag called fingerstyle-violin. I would argue that there shouldn't be.
"Fingerstyle" is a familiar term ...
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Can we ask staff for a new colour scheme?
In light of the new site-wide purple debacle - Did the purple highlight just get worse? [& link to initial launch within] could we ask that our purple be swapped for something less… glaring?
The ...
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Why should I (or anyone) become a moderator? What will I be in for?
Please migrate to the big meta if it belongs there...
I'm getting notices about the nomination phase of the current election ("This community needs your help!") and my eligibility to self-...
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Suggestion for 'critique' wording for help/on topic
As we have fairly solid support for the idea suggested in Can we add "Vocal critique" to our list of 'and not about' in the Help/on topic page? - so far 28 upvotes across the ...
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2023 Community Moderator Election
The 2023 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Election phase
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Can we add "Vocal critique" to our list of 'and not about' in the Help/on topic page?
Ref: https://music.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
We have quite a specific list of 'do not ask' in the help, better defined than many sites - but we still get the occasional 'how good is my voice?' ...
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2023 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange is scheduled for an ...
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2023 Moderator Election Announcement
SE friends,
It is, I regret to share, time for me to step down as mod. I had hoped to be a mod for longer—and a more active one!—but a recent promotion has severely impacted the time I once spent here ...
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New tag for rests
There are a significant number of questions (80+) that are primarily about rests:
These are about the: rhythm, notation, engraving, history, etc. of rests, or about getting them to work with ...
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General Moderation Strike!
For those who are unaware — as of Monday the 5th of June 2023 — there is a Stack Overflow / Stack Exchange network general moderation strike.
For details, please see this Meta post:
Moderation Strike: ...
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Is it a bad idea, when closing an invalid question, to also answer in a comment?
We had a small rash today of first-time users posting easy-close questions—"recommend me a theory book," "recommend me a signal processor," and "what's this musical quote.&...
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Partimento does not exist on this site?
That's what the box told me when I went looking for a Partimento tag. To me, the new scholarship around partimento is the most interesting things to appear in "classical" music since........
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What just happened to the "tritone" tag?
A newish user (mathlander) created a new tag: tritone.
They started adding it to questions across the site: 13 in total.
Being a low rep user, these retag edits had to be approved by several other ...
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Add a "Fux" tag?
I did a quick search for "fux is:question" and got 39 results. We get Fux-related questions often enough that I wonder if we should either:
Add a fux tag, or
Add fux as a synonym for ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Discussion of content generated by machine learning, AKA "AI"
Many Stacks have been discussing ML-generated content on their Stacks in their Meta sites. After reviewing those discussions, I became very curious and wanted to look at the potential impact of ML-...
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Why is "Learning to Patch Synthesizers" locked?
Why is Learning to Patch Synthesizers locked? Is it because the question is too vague? It has a lot of useful info in the answers that I don't know you'd find anywhere else.
I'm asking because one of ...
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How can we refine the "basic analysis" close reason?
Here's a great example of a question that generated several thoughtful and interesting answers in which advanced members of the community disagreed:
How does one differentiate a song in Dorian vs. a ...
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Tag proposal: [ancient-greece]
Periodically we get questions related to the music of ancient Greece, which had a unique musical culture in both practice and theory. The study of music in ancient Greece is an academic specialty and ...
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Is it just me, or is adding pictures to a reply broken?
Is it just me, or is adding pictures to a reply broken?
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my question is closed with an invalid(?) reason
I asked [this question][1] yesterday. The question is closed as it's claimed to be 'opinion-based'. Plus, history tag becomes useless.
There is not a biased or subjective opinion in this question. Do ...
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Merge [church-music] and [hymnody] tags into new [sacred-music] tag
The question Notes not adding up to time signature, with weird white oval note turned out to be related to a piece of Punjabi Christian sacred music.
In looking to add an appropriate tag to the ...
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Are "name that song" questions appropriate here?
Are "name that song" questions appropriate here on music.stackexchange.com?
For instance, if users have already asked on all the other forums, Reddit, etc.
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Should there be a tag for questions about Scheme?
There are over 400 questions with tag lilypond on SE: MP&T, these are about the music programming language LilyPond.
However, at least 20 of theses questions* are really about Scheme.
Scheme is ...
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Looking for users interested in committing to the chat room(s)
UPDATE: New trial-run room added, "Name that Tune"
To address:
Identifying the song stuck in your head.
Getting repertoire suggestions.
Identifying the song stuck in someone else's head.
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Legal question prohibition vs. copyright questions and the [copyright] tag: Close them all and remove the tag [duplicate]
There is currently a contradiction between prohibition of legal questions and the existence (and usage) of the copyrights tag.
The legal questions prohibition is long established. For example
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The Copyrights tag
There are a dozen or so questions with the copyrights tag, many currently pending closure.
Legal issues are off-topic on SE: Music Practice & Theory (see: Are questions on copyright on topic?).
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I asked 1 question in total, it has 4 upvotes, 3 answers, 0 flags. How can I have a history of asking low quality questions?
Day 4: Dom kindly provided some background information as he/she stated in the comments. The moderation still claims that both accounts are mine, but I've had only 1 account. On top of that, depending ...
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Is "homework" a close reason?
I've heard several comments lately saying that we don't allow questions asking us to "do your homework for you," and I wanted to check since I'm not aware of it as an official position. Note,...
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Do we have a canonical post for "Music doesn't have to be in a key" and/or "As long as it sounds good ..."?
The question Non Diatonic Harmonization?, at core, comes down to the same "you can do anything if you like the sound", "rules are only guidelines", "music doesn't have to be ...
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Please undelete my answer
I wrote an answer to this question: Software to sync with tempo in violin
It was deleted. There were two comments:
This looks like a product advertisement. The main claim (that one should not use a ...
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RIP Dave Smith, inventor of the Prophet 5 synth
Dave Smith (1950-2022) was a musician and engineer who founded Sequential Circuits (a major synth manufacturer) and invented the Prophet 5 synthesizer.
The Prophet 5 was a significant milestone in ...
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New tag for Buy/Purchase/Shop?
We have enough questions asking about how to buy various products, I wonder if a tag would be helpful in categorizing and finding them.
As someone who uses tag searches, it would be helpful to me. Say ...
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Can opinion based questions be valuable?
At this moment the question How can I stop playing notes and start playing music? has already 14 answers, yet the highest voted one has only two upvotes, 3 questions have 1 upvote, remaining 10 have ...
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To what degree are music business questions off topic?
Our Help Center indicates that "business" questions are off-topic for MP&T:
Music: Practice & Theory Stack Exchange is for musicians, students, and enthusiasts. If you have a ...
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What are the primary rationales for banning "recommendation" questions (to help decide when something should be CVed and when it shouldn't)
I was looking at this question, "Are there any keyboards that can let you do pitch-bend by directly manipulating the key," which has attracted several close votes as a "recommendation ...
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Can I please create a canonical grouping question?
I have some resource material from ABRSM, Trinity Guildhall and UNISA than can answer all the grouping questions that are a recurring theme here.
I can ask and answer my own question and create a ...
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Is the second Open Mic Nite open in the Auditorium?
Is the Open Mic Nite happening right now? Again?
(note to dup script: this is a different one than the last question)
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If we have an Auditorium, should we have Concerts?
I recently became aware that we have at least 2 regular chatrooms. The Practice Room for general music p&p chitchat. And The Auditorium for performance critique.
Now, I think this is great in its ...
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Single question posts with answers duplicating each other
I frequently run into questions which have multiple answer posts, two or more of which are saying the same thing. Sometimes this is valuable. Each post might contain a nugget that another doesn't, or ...
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2021: a year in moderation
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Updating close reasons to fit the new format
As another year of Music SE comes to a close, it brings an opportunity for us as a site to reflect and make the site better. One way we can do this is through a newish global SE improvement. The close ...
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Incorrectly closed question?
A question entitled "What makes a song a Christmas song?" was closed as opinion-based.
Apart from lyrics, what features have been common to Christmas music in different traditions and eras ...
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What to do if a bounty attracted no activity?
I posted a question and got several up-votes but neither comments nor answers. I offered a 100 pt. bounty, and still nothing. I don't really care about losing the points but I really AM hoping for ...
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Lyric translations
There's been an interesting discussion here and there was a suggestion to pose a question at ELU as to what cultural considerations should be taken into account by music teachers deciding whether to ...
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