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Re: [metatuning] Digest Number 1482

🔗Christopher Bailey <chris@...>

4/21/2006 7:54:49 AM

> > Carl, listen to the first cycle of the Ives "Univese Symphony"
> > for an aural education in polyrhythms." Johnny

> I can play all 5-limit polyrhythms in either hand without
> thinking about it. The music of Henry Cowell, Nancarrow, and
> others, are more instructive, I think, than the Universe
> symphony as I've heard it.

And there's always Brahms.

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@...>

4/21/2006 3:35:47 PM

> > > Carl, listen to the first cycle of the Ives "Univese Symphony"
> > > for an aural education in polyrhythms." Johnny
>
> > I can play all 5-limit polyrhythms in either hand without
> > thinking about it. The music of Henry Cowell, Nancarrow, and
> > others, are more instructive, I think, than the Universe
> > symphony as I've heard it.
>
> And there's always Brahms.

I seem to remember some tuplets in the German Requiem.

-Carl