"Music theorists tend to bombard their audience with more information than nonexperts can swallow in one sitting." groaned the mathematician, in cognitive dissonance.
I don't think there's usually so much information in music. It's more like a language problem.
Depending on context, it can take a whole paragraph of music theory to describe a handful of chords that would otherwise be instantly recognizable to a trained ear.
Depending on context, it can take a whole paragraph of music theory to describe a handful of chords that would otherwise be instantly recognizable to a trained ear.