Hallo, Dave Phillips hat gesagt: // Dave Phillips wrote: > 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). While we're at Wendy Carlos: She has a lot of stuff written on here website: http://www.wendycarlos.com/ and I like her writing better than that of Partch. (Being half trained as a mathematician, I have a hard time following Partch's idiosyncratic way of talking about math issues. I think he makes simple things much harder to follow than they really are. Wendy is much better in that regard.) Ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
