microtonal composers at colleges

I had no idea there were all those active microtonal composers teaching at
Canadian universities. It made me wonder whom I don't know about in the
United States. (If one were to listen to Brian McLaren's rants associating
12TET hegemony with dessicated academicism you would think that academic
microtonalists such as myself didn't exist.) What microtonal composers are
currently teaching at colleges or universities in the US?

Bill

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[Alves:]
> What microtonal composers are currently teaching
> at colleges or universities in the US?

Ben Johnston once gave me a whole list of microtonal
composers who were associated with him in one way or
another, and most of them were in academia.

I don't have it available, but I know about the following:

Dennis Kam U. of Miami
Maurice Wright Temple U. (Philadelphia)
Glen Hackbarth ASU (Tempe, AZ)
Mathew Rosenblum U. of Pittsburgh
John Fonville UCSD
Brian Ferneyhough UCSD
Danlee Mitchell San Diego State U.

Isn't Joe Manieri still teaching in Boston?
I believe there are a few microtonalists teaching there.

-Monzo

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>What microtonal composers are
currently teaching at colleges or universities in the US?
Bill<

Of course it all depends on what you call microtonal, but a list might
include:

Larry Polansky (JI), Dartmouth
Allen Strange, San Jose SU
David Cope (has in the past used a JI cross set), UC Santa Cruz
Daniel Rothman (much talked about at Darmstadt last year, but I am
unfamiliar with his music), CalArts
Brian Ferneyhough (uses microtones, primarily 1/4 tones, but not to
represent extended harmonic identities), UC San Diego
Joel Mandelbaum, Queen's College
Alvin Lucier (an altogether different approach), Wesleyan

Schools that have been historically open to microtonal work include: Mills
College, U. Illinois Urbana-Champagne, the Cornish Institute, to some
extent Stanford, Webster College. I am not up to date on any of these
places, however.

In Europe, Klarenz Barlow (Cologne and Den Haag) and Johannes Fritsch
(Cologne) both have relatively deep interests in intonation; Walter
Zimmermann (Berlin) is supportive of intonational work, especially related
to the American experimental tradition. Freiburg, in the post-Ferneyhough
days, appears less microtonal than in the past. In France, IRCAM (which
offers graduate degrees)has become microtone-friendlier, while Alain
Bancquart has been an influential teacher. In England, I understand that
Christopher Fox (Huddersfeld) is an excellent teacher.

>Isn't Joe Manieri still teaching in Boston?

I believe he retired from at the New England Conservatory a
few years ago...

Dan

Is San Diego a great center for microtonalists?! It seems that some are
living there!

Vog.

Joseph L Monzo wrote:

> From: Joseph L Monzo <monz@juno.com>
>
> [Alves:]
> > What microtonal composers are currently teaching
> > at colleges or universities in the US?
>
> Ben Johnston once gave me a whole list of microtonal
> composers who were associated with him in one way or
> another, and most of them were in academia.
>
> I don't have it available, but I know about the following:
>
> Dennis Kam U. of Miami
> Maurice Wright Temple U. (Philadelphia)
> Glen Hackbarth ASU (Tempe, AZ)
> Mathew Rosenblum U. of Pittsburgh
> John Fonville UCSD
> Brian Ferneyhough UCSD
> Danlee Mitchell San Diego State U.
>
> Isn't Joe Manieri still teaching in Boston?
> I believe there are a few microtonalists teaching there.
>
> -Monzo
>
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>Isn't Joe Manieri still teaching in Boston?

Yes, he teaches 72-tone equal temperament at New England Conservatory
without any regard to its excellent approximations of simple-integer
ratios.

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>From: "Paul H. Erlich" <PErlich@Acadian-Asset.com>

>Isn't Joe Manieri still teaching in Boston?

Yes, he teaches 72-tone equal temperament at New England Conservatory
without any regard to its excellent approximations of simple-integer
ratios.<

This, essentially, is the same approach taken by Carrillo, Haba and
Wyschnegradsky in an earlier generation or by Ferneyhough & Co. nowadays:
the use of microtones to create a highly inflected musical surface. One of
Partch's initial impulses, to accurately represent the inflections of a
speaking voice was not unrelated to this view. The alternative approach,
whose pioneers were Lourie, Novaro, Partch (slightly later), Fokker, and
Wilson, is probably more central to the interests of the tuning list
membership, is certainly a deeper view of musical materials, but one which
does not automatically dismiss the other aesthetic.

> Is San Diego a great center for microtonalists?! It seems that some are
> living there!

Yes. Oodles of them.

Message written at 24 Mar 1999 22:35:04 +0000

Depending on your definition, I think Richard Boulanger should be in
your list, teaching at Berklee in Boston. His some-time student
Elaine Walker/Elaine Mullen has reformed Zia, and last summer was
rehearsing hard -- they gave a first gig at Boulanger's garden party
in August. She sings 19ET and 10ET mainly
==John ffitch

>Isn't Joe Manieri still teaching in Boston?

Just to be sure, Joe Manieri and Joe Maneri are really two
different microtonalists?

Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl

> Elaine Walker/Elaine Mullen has reformed Zia, and last summer was
> rehearsing hard. She sings 19ET and 10ET mainly

She's done a bit in Bohlen's tuning (13 per 3:1) as well.

Manuel wrote,

>Just to be sure, Joe Manieri and Joe Maneri are really two
>different microtonalists?

No, I don't think there is a Joe Manieri.

[Erlich:]
> Manuel wrote,
>
>> Just to be sure, Joe Manieri and Joe Maneri are really two
>> different microtonalists?
>
> No, I don't think there is a Joe Manieri.

i take the blame

i think i misspelled his name in the first place

-monz

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