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Which book are you reading, out of curiosity? I recently bought Harmonic Experience, the physical book, and thought it was funny that it is even offered in the Kindle format.

(By the way, it's not at all an introductory or comprehensive music theory book. It's about the history of harmony, temperament systems, and psychoacoustics.)

http://www.amazon.com/Harmonic-Experience-Harmony-Natural-Ex...

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I wanted to put in a plug for Open Music Theory [1], for anybody who's interested. It's an open-source [2], Creative-Commons licensed music theory text designed for use in college music theory classrooms. It's written primarily by some friends of mine, all with teaching positions and Theory PhDs, so the material is good. I'm using the 20th-century materials in my class this semester instead of assigning a $100+ textbook. It's not quite as comprehensive as a dead-tree book (yet?), but is a great resource for beginners, or people looking to supplement their knowledge.

[1] http://openmusictheory.com [2] https://github.com/openmusictheory/openmusictheory.github.io

I'm reading http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598635034/ref=olp_product_...

which was chosen because I hoped that the "angle" would be useful for me as a DJ who needs to start making some remixes to go to the "next level". I'm about 4 chapters in so far and I'm pretty happy. I've also been supplementing it with Tenuto, Theory and Fiddlewax Blue (All iOS apps). I plan on getting FiddleWax Pro soon as it seems really fun.

That's interesting. I don't listen to any electronic music so I've never contemplated music theory from that angle. I'm also not aware of any music theory apps other than EarWizard [0], which does relative pitch training. I'll have to check out the ones you mentioned.

[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/earwizard/id599466971?mt=8

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