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"Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music /

Described by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer," Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud...

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Autor principal: Johnston, Ben
Otros Autores: Gilmore, Bob, 1961-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Achnowledgments -- Introduction -- Ben Johnston: A Chronology -- I. ON MUSIC THEORY -- Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 1959-60 -- Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource -- Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations -- Microtonal Resources -- Tonality Regained -- Music Theory -- Rational Structure in Music -- A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation 
505 0 |a II. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTUREMusical Intelligibiliity: Where Are We? -- A Talk on Contemporary Music -- Festivals and New Music -- Three Attacks on a Problem -- On Context -- Contribution to IMC Panel -- How to Cook an Albatross -- Art and Survival -- On Bridge-Building -- Seventeen Items -- Art and Religion -- Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper -- A.S.U.C. Keynote Address -- Just Intonation and Mere Intonation -- Without Improvement -- Maximum Clarity -- III. SOME COMPOSITIONS -- On String Quartet no. 2 
505 0 |a On Sonata for Microtonal PianoThe Genesis of Knocking Piece -- Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence -- On Carmilla -- On Crossings (String Quartet no. 3 and String Quartet no. 4) -- On the Age of Surveillance -- On String Quartet no. 5 -- On String Quartet no. 6 -- On Journeys -- On Sleep and Waking -- IV. ON OTHER COMPOSERS -- Letter from Urbana -- To Perspectives of New Music Re. John Cage -- The Corporealism of Harry Partch -- Harry Partch/John Cage -- Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music -- Beyond Harry Partch -- Regarding La Monte Young 
505 0 |a Notes on SourcesBibliography -- Discography -- Index -- back cover 
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