<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://586/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font><b style="font-size: 12px; ">Dr. Stephen Jablonsky, Ph.D.</b></font></div><div><b style="font-size: 12px; ">Music Department Chair</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 12px; ">The City College of New York</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 12px; ">Shepard Hall Room 72</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 12px; ">New York NY 10031</b></div><div><b style="font-size: 12px; ">(212) 650-7663</b></div><div><font><b style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:music@ccny.cuny.edu">music@ccny.cuny.edu</a></b></font></div><div style="font-size: medium; font-family: Helvetica; "><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 25, 2013, at 7:50 AM, Michael Morse <<a href="mailto:mwmorse@bell.net">mwmorse@bell.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>MW Morse</div><div>Trent University</div><div>Peterborough, Oshawa<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">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!)<br><br>Christopher Bonds<br>Wayne State College, Emeritus<br><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Smt-talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org">Smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org">http://lists.societymusictheory.org/listinfo.cgi/smt-talk-societymusictheory.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>