A good friend and colleague, who was preparing to teach a music theory class for the first time contacted me this morning. She asked a simple question: “What’s a good ice-breaker to get my theory class started? Here’s the best one that that I know……. I teach at a small liberal arts institution. Many of the students come to us from small towns in Ohio. Some of these students have benefitted from quality instruction in the arts; most of the others have had more limited introduc