Gerald Eskelin

A short, amusing book about teaching and learning music. It mostly focuses on major/minor as a system and the problems inherent in well-tempered keyboards. There is a major section on rhythm and meter signatures, too.

The information contained in this book is actually pretty good. Unfortunately, the way it's written is annoying. Worse, there's no table of contents and no index, so it's difficult to use as a reference. The first two-thirds of the book is about harmony and the remainder is about rhythm. I found the latter part more worthwhile, but I would have missed it entirely had I given up halfway through. Eskin's The Sound of Music: Perception & Notation looks like a more useful text. [2007-04-19]