Books noticed

I was in a Barnes and Noble's bookstore today and saw a book which
I think deserves more than the quick skim I had time to do.
"Harmonic Experience" by W.A. Mathieu, 1998, Inner Traditions
International, Rochester, VT USA $45.00.

It is large harmony text based on both western and Indian scales and
Just Intonation as well as 12-tet. Mathieu limits himself pretty much
to the 5-limit, but does have one short chapter on 7, 11 and above.
It has lots of ear and voice training examples in JI and discusses the
construction of Indian and well as western modal scales. Good biblio
as well (Harrison, Partch, Doty, Hopkin, etc.)

I also saw a pb copy of "Sound Design," a book on fairly simple
homebuilt acoustic instruments inspired by Partch, etc. The tuning
lore is elementary stuff, but it references Doty's JI primer, Partch,
etc.


--John


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