R. Ryan Endris. Illustrated by Joe Lee.
 
Music Theory For Beginners was developed for anyone interested in learning
to read and write music, a task that can be quite daunting for novices. This
book, however, will allay any fears and set you on the path to learning what
all those dots, lines, anwd symbols actually mean. It provides the necessary
scholarly muscle to entice and inform the reader, yet it does not require awy
prior knowledge of music or force the reader to wade through hundreds of
pages of jargon and details.