"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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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2006]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Notes on SourcesBibliography
- Discography
- Index
- back cover