[Smt-talk] THEORY TEXTBOOKS

[Stephen Jablonsky]

I wanted to add that I suspect that most textbooks only make sense after you have finished the course and read it a second time. Too often professors with doctoral degrees do not remember what it was like to be a music theory neophyte faced with a mammoth book that attempts to explain the unexplainable. I hope professors do not order books for their students because they are the textbook du jour and all the smart people are using it.

On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Stephen Jablonsky wrote:

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> I would love to know what you think and have experienced in your career as music student and teacher. Personally, I find that reading theory textbooks is a narcoleptic experience. I suspect that the most effective instruction comes from the analysis of complete scores and from the challenges of a properly sequenced workbook.
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> Prof. Stephen Jablonsky, Ph.D.
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Prof. Stephen Jablonsky, Ph.D.
Music Department Chair
The City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue S-72
New York NY 10031
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