Re: [tuning] Ornette Coleman

Johnny Reinhard wrote,

> Wow, I just had a session/rehearsal with Ornette Coleman in his
Harmolodics Studio. It's for a 17-piece work inspired by the Statue
of Liberty to be performed on June 1 in New York's Battery Park.

Wow indeed! Sounds like great fun... congratulations.

Dan

Afmmjr@aol.com wrote:

>
>
> So, there is only a staff, with all 4 notes reading (for treble, bass, alto,
> and tenor clef readings). Only accidentals change as a result, so there is
> an improviser's freedom to play sharps and flats as fit to the player's
> imagination and sense ("musica ficta").
> It was drawn for me by Ornette's copyist on a
> napkin!

Maybe there is no need for the napkin.
Do you need lines to know ?
Or as Schoenberg said "Do you need to have a tooth pulled to make mistakes?".

Cheers!

Pat

ppagano@bellsouth.net wrote:

> Or as Schoenberg said "Do you need to have a tooth pulled to make mistakes?".

he didn't!!!!!

> Cheers!
>
> Pat

-- Kraig Grady
North American Embassy of Anaphoria island
www.anaphoria.com

ppagano@bellsouth.net wrote:

Or as Schoenberg said "Do you need to have a tooth pulled to make mistakes"

Ivor Darreg had been accepted into Schönberg's class at USC (following in the footsteps of John Cage, who had also introduced Darreg to the quartertone composer Mildred Couper). However, a pre-antibiotic afternoon at the dentist left him without any teeth and in ruinous health. Darreg's plans to study were given up.

So, pulling one tooth may lead to mistakes, but pulling all of them will either (a) make you a microtonalist or (b) keep you from becoming a 12-toner.