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Introduction
Aim of this essay
The majority of books on music theory that are really worth reading for the contemporary professional musician are often either too old and out of print if at all ever having been available in today's lingua franca English (e.g. Harmonielehre by Louis and Thuille), or very specific and too narrow in scope (e.g. De Toonklok by Peter Schat). At the same time there is a great amount of more basic practice tutorials available, also on the internet, as well as an enormous amount of materials for the amateur musician.
This essay aims at achieving comprehensiveness as well as maximal depth, starting out from a broad contemporary musical practice, naturally including what is still mistakenly called "classical music", sometimes going more into music-philosophy, then into history of music and history of theory, not failing to reach out into the fields of Jazz and World music as well.
Under construction
It is however, for the time being, "under construction", meaning: being written in installments, not complete by far at this moment. So bear with me dear reader, and please withhold your judgement until i call it finished.
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Conclusion
Dear reader, I hope therefore to have done all i can to make it possible for this essay to eventually find its way to you, so it can become part of that age-old human discussion which is generally summarized by the word: knowledge.
Rotterdam, September 2008
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