AW.: Re: Re: the "Partch Question"

[Beardsley:]
<<
As far as I can tell, Lou Harrison hasn't looked beyond
7 limit. There's a lot of his music that hasn't been recorded,
he's an extremely prolific composer. Does anybody know if
he's done anything other than 12tet, Pythagorean, 5 limit
and 7 limit tunings? >>

Sure. His pieces in the "free style" have an 11-limit, I believe, but the
lattice is so open that these are among the most intonationally complex works
ever composed. (The CD accompanying the Miller/Lieberman book has David
Doty's realization of the _Simfony in Free Style_). His various american
gamelan tunings have included ratios through 19, while his "mode room"
improvisations went even higher (he worked for a long while with a
metallophone giving him a harmonic series through 64. Harrison's Piano
Concerto with Selected Orchestra is in Kirnberger II. Then, there is all of
that music for percussion ensemble without fixed pitches.

DWolf77309@cs.com wrote:

> From: DWolf77309@cs.com
>
> [Beardsley:]
> <<
> As far as I can tell, Lou Harrison hasn't looked beyond
> 7 limit. There's a lot of his music that hasn't been recorded,
> he's an extremely prolific composer. Does anybody know if
> he's done anything other than 12tet, Pythagorean, 5 limit
> and 7 limit tunings? >>
>
> Sure. His pieces in the "free style" have an 11-limit, I believe, but the
> lattice is so open that these are among the most intonationally complex works
> ever composed. (The CD accompanying the Miller/Lieberman book has David
> Doty's realization of the _Simfony in Free Style_). His various american
> gamelan tunings have included ratios through 19, while his "mode room"
> improvisations went even higher (he worked for a long while with a
> metallophone giving him a harmonic series through 64. Harrison's Piano
> Concerto with Selected Orchestra is in Kirnberger II. Then, there is all of
> that music for percussion ensemble without fixed pitches.

Wow thanks! I'd forgotten about his use of historical tunings,
there's quite a bit of that in his recordings. I should really
should get that book/cd.

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