Title: from the real world of music
Product review: I shouldn't feel constrained to point out that argumentum ad hominem is a material fallacy of presumption, that unfavorable criticism is not the concomitant of ignorance or opacity. I doubt anyone is deceived that "Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory" is intended as other than a college textbook. The question is whether it succeeds. In my opinion it does not. In my opinion, it fails to come to grips with--and is curiously oblivious of--the body of music it purports to explain. In my opinion, it perpetuates, in a patronizing manner, a number of logical errors, misconceptions, and abuses of terminology. (For a "technical" work it is fairly lightweight, a sort of musical "set theory" Cliff Notes. Don't let this circumstance encourage you.)
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