So much for my calls for a compromise. Oh well!
But you guys are saying basically the same thing.
"Music theory explains how music works" - correct
"Music theory is there to explain what we do" - correct
It's the same thing. Music is what we make it, so explaining how it works means the same thing as explaining how we make it work.
I left the word "naturally" out of "..what we do naturally" as it seems to have been misconstrued. Music theory explains everything that we do, (or at least it attempts to) whether we have been influenced by natural phenomena such as the harmonic series leading to the diatonic scale, or whether our natural curiosity leads us to experiment with contrived formulae, such as the whole tone scale.
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