Julien Claassen wrote: > Thanks for telling me all this. I'll try to find a bit about the Harry P. >book you mentioned. Perhaps it is, what I'm looking for. But I'm not >completely sure. But it's a start. > > Hi Julien, I wouldn't recommend Partch's book to a student looking for a starting text on typical theory/composition. Harry Partch was an amazing and idiosyncratic composer who designed his own instruments and trained musicians on them in order to get his music heard at all (shades of Don Van Vliet), he was pretty far from the mainstream. Wendy Carlos has some interesting commentary on Partch's contributions. She notes particularly that Partch's instruments were perhaps not the best designs for projecting harmonies based on just and other intonations (HP's instruments were mostly percussive, with not much sustain). Julien, can screen readers deal with PDF files ? If so, there are a lot of things available in that format. Best, dp _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
