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canadian composers who teach

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3/22/1999 6:09:54 AM

Paul Rappoport is the dean of music at McMaster. They have a Scalatron out
there, an electronic keyboard with a generalized keyboard. He works in JI
and different ETs.

James Tenney teaches at York University, he has worked with Partch and his
compositions are keeping him travelling a lot, but he is very smart and
worth hanging out with.

At Simon Fraser there is someone there who works in electronic and
alternate tunings, but unfortunately I cannot recall his name right now.

Bruce Mather may teach somewhere in Montreal, but I don't know much about
him other than that he has written some quarter tone and 16th tone pieces.

Hope that helps.
John Gzowski

🔗jgzowski@xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

3/22/1999 6:09:54 AM

Paul Rappoport is the dean of music at McMaster. They have a Scalatron out
there, an electronic keyboard with a generalized keyboard. He works in JI
and different ETs.

James Tenney teaches at York University, he has worked with Partch and his
compositions are keeping him travelling a lot, but he is very smart and
worth hanging out with.

At Simon Fraser there is someone there who works in electronic and
alternate tunings, but unfortunately I cannot recall his name right now.

Bruce Mather may teach somewhere in Montreal, but I don't know much about
him other than that he has written some quarter tone and 16th tone pieces.

Hope that helps.
John Gzowski

🔗vog <vog@xxxxx.xxxx>

3/22/1999 2:05:58 PM

Ehehe! yeah, I know... but the piece I heard was really in 1/16th of tone,
not in 1/6th... It was played on a unique 1/16th piano (if there is two of
them). I know about McGill I would have been accepted there if I had not
cancelled my inscription... but I'm not really sure I want to live in
Montreal. I know that city (it's only 1h30 from where I was born ;-)

There is Denys Bouliane who's teaching there. Anyways, for now I'm not sure
if I want to continue on with pure traditional compoisition or if I wouldn't
be better to study in Electroaccoustique...?! At the conservatory of Montreal
someone said to me that they offer both programs combined... seems interesting
too... but I must see if I find any suitable teacher... :-)

Thanks for all the information :-)

Vincent-Olivier Gagnon.

jon wild wrote:

> From: jon wild <wild@fas.harvard.edu>
>
> John Gzowski wrote:
>
> > Bruce Mather may teach somewhere in Montreal, but I don't know much
> > about him other than that he has written some quarter tone and 16th tone
> > pieces.
>
> those would be '6th-tone', not 16th-tone... Bruce teaches at McGill in
> Montreal, and I studied there with him a few years ago. He has been a
> champion of Wyschnegradsky's music for a long time, and premiered many of
> his quarter- and 6th-tone pieces. My favourite microtonal piece by Mather
> himself is for four pianos (8 hands) in quarter-tones plus four
> ondes-martenot. sorry, can't remember what it's called. There are a
> couple of recordings put out by McGill Records of his 1/4-tone stuff,
> played by him and his wife Pierrette, and his 1/6th-tone stuff on 3
> pianos. You can probably find out through the McGill music website,
> http://www.music.mcgill.ca. Mather also uses a lot of quarter-tones in
> his recent chamber opera, "La Princesse Blanche". By the way, there are
> some other fine composers who teach at McGill, notably Brian Cherney. It's
> a great school, and a wonderful city, to be a musician in.
>
> cheers - Jon
>
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