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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><font face="Arial" size="3">One author who has been, to my knowledge, entirely ignored in the last 20-so years, is Alvin Etler, and his <em>Making Music: An Introduction to Theory</em>, a superb textbook on counterpoint using the total array of chromatic pitches -- but not necessarily dissonant. What I have considered one of the most fruitful aspects of this approach is to equip students with a systematic way of identifying the degree of "tonalness" or "atonalness" of any combination of pitches, linear or harmonic. I have learned a lot from using the ideas of this book, and so did my students, as far as I know. Is this book still in use somewhere?<br id="FontBreak"></font><br><em><font face="Arial">Paul Cadrin</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">Musicologue sans frontières</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">2-1475, avenue Desjardins</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">Montréal (Québec) Canada</font></em><br><em><font face="Arial">H1V 2G5</font></em><br> </div></body>
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