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[Martin]

On Tue, 20 May 2003, Morgan Kelsey wrote:

> anyone else read music theory books?

Sure.

> i was just dusting off  rameau's "treatise on harmony".

Swap you for a copy of Charles Rosen's "The classical style" - an analysis
of the style of Mozart, Hayden & Beethoven. Or I've got a well-thumbed
copy of Riemenschneider somewhere to compare the theory with how (JS) Bach
did it.

Cheers
Martin
(graduate of http://www.music.ed.ac.uk/courses/ug/bmus.html)

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