Title: Maybe for the dead, serious professional?
Review: I found the book a wee over-written for a beginning text: there is an analysis of the scales used by Neanderthal bone flutes-- p. 49; a scholarly differention between "pitches" and "notes" (notes have duration) -- p. 20; a description of the scales used by the ancient Greeks--p. 23, etc., etc. While I found the discussion of Neanderthal bone flutes interesting, when I reached that point in the book I concluded that this fellow intended to bore potential competition into a coma, so I hefted the book--all 480 pages--back on the shelf for possible reference after I've learned to play somewhere else.When I find a good elementary text, I'll add it to this review.
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