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Dear Prof. Reale,<BR>
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Thank you for citing the Clendinning-Marvin anthology and its coordination with the Musician’s Guide texts. Our intent with the anthology is to give students a complete musical context for the short examples that appear throughout the text. With our spiral-learning approach, students revisit pieces over and over again, adding new layers of understanding on each “visit.” We encourage students to listen to complete works (not just short snippets), so that they can build a repertoire of familiar pieces and so that music theory will seem more relevant to real music making. To that end, we include repertoire that students might perform and diverse instrumentation for students in different performance areas.<BR>
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Of course the works in the anthology may be used to teach many other aspects of harmony, counterpoint, and form than those specifically discussed in the text. A topical index would be helpful for teachers in preparing lessons and additional assignments. In fact, we did have an “Index of Teaching Points” in the first edition of the anthology, which you can still consult for the many pieces that have stayed the same between editions. However, with the the large number of new musical works that we added to the new edition and the reality of publishing deadlines, we simply were unable to prepare such an index for the 2nd edition. Norton does provide an instructor website, however, and we could certainly prepare a new index to be posted there if this were desired. In fact, if there are book adopters who have particular topics or good examples from the Musician’s Guide repertoire that they would like to see in this index, we would be happy to hear about it and to place it in the index when it gets prepared. Please reply to one of us privately; we would be grateful for your input. Many thanks, Betsy Marvin<BR>
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Betsy Marvin <<a href="bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu">bmarvin@esm.rochester.edu</a>><BR>
Eastman School of Music<BR>
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Jane Clendinning <<a href="jclendinning@fsu.edu">jclendinning@fsu.edu</a>><BR>
Florida State University College of Music</SPAN></FONT>
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