GG: From Elmer

[Mary Jo Watts <mwatts@RCI.RUTGERS.EDU>]

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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!