Texas Tech University
School of Music
Box 4239/Lubbock, Texas 79409-2033/(806) 742-2270
March 20, 1991

To whom this may concern:

How often has it been said, “I wish I could have learnedto play the piano while I was growing up!” Or, “I wish thatI had learned to read music when I was younger”.

For all these persons and those who dearly wish to be musical­ly creative, and to understand how music is put together,here is the work of major importance they should procure, sitdown at their piano or keyboard synthesizer and, rewardinglygo through The McClintock Piano Course written by Lorene Mc­Clintock of New York City.

Some thirty years of preparation, its thorough research and experimentation with persons of all ages, cultures and capabilities have proven that The McClintock Piano Course is a most positive learning experience, whether as a self-taught study, or accomplished with the help of a private teacher, or in a group-class instruction.

This Course is the teacher, each chapter is the syllabus and, with the completion of each book, the student has made a quantum leap preparatory to the next plateau.

Music theory is taught early on in conjunction with music reading, and these become progressively advanced so that even college music majors (including graduate-level students) have found materials and concepts beneficial to their understanding of the musical processes.

The value of The McClintock Piano Course and its in-depth approach to all of musical learning also extends to fulfill the needs of teachers of piano pedagogy, i.e., the work expounds an innovative and strongly unique approach to the teaching of the instrument through the development of the McClintock Interval Keyblocks and the McClintock Keyboard Concealer. These unusual inventions alone have contributed untold strengths for the development of playing the piano, and reading (feeling) the musical constructions within the hands.

Finally, the Course is of inestimable value for persons wishing to compose (put together) the various sounds of music and their rhythms, and to be able to move them in a musically satisfying manner.

It is, therefore, without any reservation that I am able to recommend The McClintock Piano Course to all persons from beginners to teachers and performers at any level of advancement. In it all will find those things we have always been seeking. The formatting is excellent, clear and useful a reference of musical materials to be kept handy at all times.

Sincerely,
Dr. Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, ASCAP
7JA.4’ty
Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Music