Title: blather
Product review: Re: "One can attempt to learn atonal theory through Allen Forte's book (and many did), but much of his book is theoretical, not practical, causing difficulty in distilling the main topics." I hope the author of this sentence when he writes "many did" means "many did attempt", not "many did learn 'atonal theory through Allen Forte's book'". Certainly that book is "not practical", but neither is it "theoretical" if we insist that music theory must say something about music. The practical alternative to reading Allen Forte's book is not to read a patronizing adulterated version of it such as "Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory", but to read a book that really knows and understands music, to read, for example, George Perle's "Serialism and Atonality" (as a reviewer below recommends).
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