The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Music Theory, Second Edition
Thanks, as well, to another old friend, Orson Mason, who helped me arrange
contact with Harry Miedema, and who also deserves many thanks for turning
me on to a lot of good jazz at the Jazz Kitchen—and great jambalaya at the
Cajun joint next door!
Thanks also to Harry Miedema for agreeing to write the original foreword for
this book.
Special thanks go to Allen Winold, professor emeritus in the Department of
Music Theory at Indiana University, for graciously taking time out of his busy
schedule (and his vacation!) to review the manuscript of the first edition of this
book. Allen jumped into this project with a very welcome enthusiasm, and his
comments and suggestions helped to make this a better book than it otherwise
would have been.
Even more thanks go to Dr. Frank Felice, composer, educator, and all-around
good guy, for providing a thorough review of this book’s audio ear training
course and for writing a new foreword for this second edition. He helped to
ensure the accuracy of the CD and accompanying text, and offered many valu-
able comments on content and approach—and helped to make the second edi-
tion of this book even better than the first.
Finally, I’d like to thank all the readers of this book’s first edition, for their kind
comments and useful suggestions. It’s you folks who made this book such a
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