infryq reviewed Lies my music teacher told me by Gerald Eskelin
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3 stars
The first half of this book is about harmony and how equal temperance, while great for pianos, is a bunch of baloney when it comes to tuning chords for choirs or any other continuous-pitch orchestra.
This I agree with entirely.
His style, however, is wayyyy too conversational, and completely failed to lighten the heavy theory at all (what I can only assume was his purpose in being so casual).
I've heard that the second half of the book, regarding rhythm, is a bunch of BS. I wouldn't know, since I put it down never to pick it back up again after I got tired of listening to him try to be chummy.
There are probably better books out there for debunking equal temperance.