Re: [Harp-L] Musicology

[Philharpn@xxxxxxx]

If you want the quick and dirty way to find out about music consult the Idiot 
series. I have all three of the below books. I just purchased Music Theory 
and Solo Improv from my local Barnes & Noble. The last I reviewed and liked when 
it was released.


The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory

The Complete Idiot's guide to Solo Improvisation

and if you can stand it,
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing the Harmonica 


Some of this information is old new for those of us who have a basic 
understanding of music from years of hacking away at some instrument, private lessons 
as a youth -- hay, I must have been in college when I discovered that not 
everybody could read music -- and what do I know, I'm just an old newspaperman.

Problem is, if YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MUSIC you have to start 
somewhere. And IF YOU CAN GET PAST THE SERIES TITLE -- don't like the word Idiot -- 
get over it -- these books are a good place to start.
The whole Idiot series is.

Mainly, because the books assume no prior knowledge.

All the computer instruction books that come with the computers assume the 
purchaser has a degree in computer engineering and computer program and are 
written to that level. For the rest of us who are NEW to the subject, this is of 
no help.

If anybody cares, I will be writing articles about Music 
Theory and Solo Improv in future issues of American Harmonica Newsmagazine.

In the meantime, I'm still working on the 2004 SPAH issue of AHN (Sept-Oct) 
-- which explains why it ain't at your mailbox yet!
Phil Lloyd/contributing editor
American Harmonica Newsmagazine