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The Music of Ben Johnston
Gunden, Von Heidi; Cage, John
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Description for The Music of Ben Johnston
hardcover. Num Pages: 212 pages, Illustrations, music,ports. BIC Classification: AVGC6. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 220 x 19. Weight in Grams: 821.
Ben Johnston is an American composer internationally known for his work with extended just intonation. This is a critical-analytical study of his early compositions, his studies with Harry Partch and John Cage, and his experiments with just intonation, serialism, indeterminacy, jazz, and finally, extended just intonation. Pieces are analyzed and biographical material is included. The main emphasis of the text, however, is on examining Johnston's research about tuning and scalar theory as it relates to just intonation. For a long time Johnston worked in isolation; few people understood why someone would want to change the standard pitch system. But ... Read more
Ben Johnston is an American composer internationally known for his work with extended just intonation. This is a critical-analytical study of his early compositions, his studies with Harry Partch and John Cage, and his experiments with just intonation, serialism, indeterminacy, jazz, and finally, extended just intonation. Pieces are analyzed and biographical material is included. The main emphasis of the text, however, is on examining Johnston's research about tuning and scalar theory as it relates to just intonation. For a long time Johnston worked in isolation; few people understood why someone would want to change the standard pitch system. But ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810819078
SKU
V9780810819078
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Ref
99-15
About Gunden, Von Heidi; Cage, John
Heidi Von Gunden is an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Reviews for The Music of Ben Johnston
Von Gunden is at her best when dealing with the tunings behind the microtonal works and the many compositional implications (including rhythm) of those tunings.
Tempo
A very erudite and well-informed book...Heidi Von Gunden knows her subject so thoroughly and deals with it so intricately...this is a studious publication well worth the concentration required to appreciate it.
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Tempo
A very erudite and well-informed book...Heidi Von Gunden knows her subject so thoroughly and deals with it so intricately...this is a studious publication well worth the concentration required to appreciate it.
... Read more