'Maximum Clarity' and Other Writings on Music

Informationen zum Autor Ben Johnston. Edited by Bob Gilmore Klappentext The collected writings of composer Ben Johnston Zusammenfassung The collected writings of composer Ben Johnston Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Acknowledgments   xi Introduction   xi   Bob Gilmore Ben Johnston: A Chronology   xxv   Bob Gilmore 1. ON MUSIC THEORY Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory   3 Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource   10 Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations   32 Microtonal Resources   41 Tonality Regained   46 Music Theory   53 Rational Structure in Music   62 A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation   77 2. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTURE Musical Intelligibility: Where Are We?   91 A Talk on Contemporary Music   103 Festivals and New Music   107 Three Attacks on a Problem   109 On Context   118 Contribution to IMC Panel   122 How to Cook an Albatross   126 Art and Survival   134 On Bridge-Building   143 Seventeen Items   149 Art and Religion   151 Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper   153 A.S.U.C. Keynote Address   156 Just Intonation and Mere Intonation   163 Without Improvement   166 Maximum Clarity   171 3. SOME COMPOSITIONS On String Quartet No. 2    183 On Sonata for Microtonal Piano    185 The Genesis of Knocking Piece    187 Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence   192 On Carmilla    196 On Crossings (String Quartet No. 3 and String Quartet No. 4 )   199 On The Age of Surveillance    201 On String Quartet No. 5    203 On String Quartet No. 6    204 On Journeys    205 On Sleep and Waking    207 4. ON OTHER COMPOSERS Letter from Urbana   211 To Perspectives of New Music re. John Cage   216 The Corporealism of Harry Partch   219 Harry Partch/John Cage   232 Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music    235 Beyond Harry Partch   243 Regarding La Monte Young   251 Notes on Sources   259 Bibliography   263 Discography   267 Index   271...

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• Authors: Ben Johnston
• Assisted by: Bob Gilmore (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780252086717
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08671-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Music in American Life
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs