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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 17:32:16 -0500
From: Elmer Elevator <bobmer.javanet@rcn.com>
To: mwatts@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: book recommendtion request
Hi Mary Jo!
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Could you please re-post it to the List?
Thanks!
Bob
Okay, here's a request from a pal.
Can anyone recommend a book, in English, for an intelligent but
non-musician reader, that gives a clear explanation of things like the
history and nuts and bolts and theory of Western tone systems (ancient,
medieval, classical, 20th-century), chords, harmony, temper systems.
With illustrations would be nice, so you could actually pick around on a
piano with the examples.
But not a dull, forbidding music intro textbook. Something well-written --
say, like Hofstadter's stuff on Bach and Chopin.
Bob
P.S. I so enjoyed "The Mystery of the Mumbling Pianist." Zeldah the Detective RAWKS!