hemiennealimmal / MIRACLE Partch? (was: A top 20 11-limit ...)

> From: paulerlich <paul@stretch-music.com>
> To: <tuning-math@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 1:52 PM
> Subject: [tuning-math] Re: A top 20 11-limit ... temperament list
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> > Why don't you guys take a look at that? Sounds interesting.
>
> We would need Partch's scores in a readable form . . .

Well ... there are two available:

- Glenn Hackbarth's dissertation has a transcription of
_Daphne of the Dunes_ into Johnston notation, and

- I've transcribed _The Intruder_ into HEWM in my book -- and
_Perspectives of New Music_ has published an analysis of
that piece by Bob Gilmore, so the hardest part of the work
has already been done for that piece.

I'll scan my transcription of _The Intruder_ later on today,
and upload it to my website.

-monz

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--- In tuning-math@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> Well ... there are two available:

Nope, there's more, and you probably will find the last very useable:
Richard Kassel has a big book, MUSA 9, that is a complete
transcription, analysis, history, and background on Barstow (the
piece, not the town). He uses the 1968 version, but I believe the
entire thing is translated into Johnston notation complete with
harmonic analysis.

Caveat? Its an academic publication, and it is not cheap. But for
those here that get a hold of it, I'm sure it will offer lots of
ammunition for deconstructing Partch.

http://www.umich.edu/~musausa/publications/publications.html#9

Cheers,
Jon

> From: jonszanto <jonszanto@yahoo.com>
> To: <tuning-math@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:25 PM
> Subject: [tuning-math] Re: hemiennealimmal / MIRACLE Partch? (was: A top
20 11-limit ...)
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> --- In tuning-math@y..., "monz" <joemonz@y...> wrote:
> > Well ... there are two available:
>
> Nope, there's more, and you probably will find the last very useable:
> Richard Kassel has a big book, MUSA 9, that is a complete
> transcription, analysis, history, and background on Barstow (the
> piece, not the town). He uses the 1968 version, but I believe the
> entire thing is translated into Johnston notation complete with
> harmonic analysis.

Thanks, Jon! I know Richard, but didn't know about this!

Unfortunately, as with Hackbarth's transcription of _Daphne_,
anyone wanting to analyze Partch's music must first learn how
to decode Johnston's notation ... and that ain't the easiest
thing to do.

My suggestion is to start with this:
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/partch/intruder/intruder.htm

And, BTW, I had speculated on the MIRACLE-Partch connection
last summer, and drew some inferences from an examination of
what Partch said in _Genesis_ about various ETs and other tunings:
http://www.ixpres.com/interval/monzo/partch/et/partch-on-et.htm

-monz

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