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Re: Ben Johnston -justification

🔗Rick Sanford <rsanf@xxxx.xxxx>

5/10/1999 6:35:31 AM

Ken:
go to a concert and hear some of this music.
It's fantastic. Combinations of those
techniques can only yield an ever-rich breed
of intelligent music, which to me sounds
simply gorgeous.

Ken Fasano wrote:

> From: Ken Fasano <fasano@sysar.com>
>
> Re Johnston using serial techniques and JI together -- does
> that make sense musically? Part of the usefulness of ET serial
> procedures is the multiple meanings of enharmonic notes, and
> the "combinatorial" harmony (to use a term from Babbitry) of similar
> row segments. Is combinatoriality possible with JI or non ET? What
> justification is there - musically - for JI serialism?