[Smt-talk] Starting Points

[nancygarniez at tonalrefraction.com]

Partly in response to awareness of that problem I (who am not a theory instructor) wrote a thin, inexpensive, irreverent reference book called
What Might It Mean? An Uncommon Glossary of Musical Terms and Concepts for the Stuck, Bored, and Curious. Self-published in 1999 (available through the website below) I stand by most of the definitions in it, with the exception of Moderato, on which I would now, if asked, write an entire chapter.

Since Mr. Rosenhaus already entered with 1st horn consider this a toot from the 2nd chair. 

Nancy Garniez


http://nancygarniez.blogspot.com 
www.tonalrefraction.net
-----Original Message-----
From: STEPHEN JABLONSKY [mailto:jablonsky at optimum.net]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 08:35 AM
To: 'Michael Morse'
Cc: smt-talk at lists.societymusictheory.org
Subject: Re: [Smt-talk] Starting Points

Perhaps someone can explain why friendly, humorous theory instructors feel the need to use textbooks that are expensive, over weight, and cause narcolepsy when read by undergraduates.



Dr. Stephen Jablonsky, Ph.D.
Music Department Chair
The City College of New York
Shepard Hall Room 72
New York NY 10031
(212) 650-7663
music at ccny.cuny.edu







On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Michael Morse <mwmorse at bell.net> wrote:

Alas. Writing clear introductory books was considered a noble calling in the mid-century, and we saw people like Jacques Barzun and Bertrand Russell turning their hands to such work, not to mention such brilliant expositors as William Barrett and Erich Heller. Publish or Perish was one blow; in my early days as a scholar, I was outright discouraged from writing for anyone but my peers, all few dozen of them. Post-modernism was another; the parlous jiggery-pokery that passed for academic prose in 90s and 00s could never be rendered into plain English. Again, alas and alack.

MW Morse
Trent University
Peterborough, Oshawa



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The mid-20th century seems to have been a high-water mark for people writing real books about real stuff. Or maybe I'm just getting old! (That's a fact!)

Christopher Bonds
Wayne State College, Emeritus




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