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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Harry Partch, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Paul Doktor, Joseph de Pasquale, Atar Arad, Roberto Diaz. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Harry Partch, né le 24 juin 1901 à Oakland (Californie) et mort le 3 septembre 1974 à San Diego, était un compositeur et constructeur d'instruments de musique américain. Cet autodidacte « éclectique et visionnaire » fut parmi les premiers compositeurs du siècle à faire un travail intensif et systématique avec des gammes musicales microtonales. Une grande partie de sa musique est destinée à des instruments préparés qu'il fabriquait lui-même, accordés selon une échelle musicale à 43 degrés. Son œuvre influença l'apparition de la musique minimaliste ainsi que d'importantes figures de la musique populaire comme Tom Waits ou Dr. John. Transcription du système d'intonation juste conçu par Harry PartchPartch est né le 24 juin 1901 à Oakland (Californie). Ses parents étaient des missionnaires presbytériens ; Harry est né peu après leur fuite de Chine suite à la révolte des Boxers. Il passa son enfance dans de petites villes de l'Arizona et du Nouveau-Mexique, où il entendit et chanta des chansons en mandarin, en espagnol et en langues amérindiennes. Partch était stérile, probablement à cause des oreillons qu'il a eus dans son enfance. L'essentiel de ses relations amoureuses furent avec d'autres hommes. Enfant, il apprit à jouer de la clarinette, de l'harmonium, de la guitare, du violon alto et du piano. Il commença très tôt à composer en utilisant les douze tempéraments égaux de l'échelle chromatique, qui est la norme de la musique occidentale récente, mais brûla toutes ses œuvres vers 1930 après avoir été frustré par ce qu'il jugea être des imperfections de ce système part...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Robert Russell Bennett, La Monte Young, Harry Partch, Halim El-Dabh, William Grant Still, Terry Riley, Jacques-Louis Monod, Howard Hanson, Paul Elwood, Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Arthur Lourié, George Rochberg, Meredith Monk, John Coolidge Adams, Paul Wehage, John Chowning, Leonard Bernstein, Phill Niblock, Gian Carlo Menotti, Dušan Bogdanović, Gloria Coates, Leon Kirchner, André Previn, Philip Corner, George Crumb, Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, Frederic Rzewski, Ruth Crawford Seeger, George Antheil, Elliott Carter, Ingram Marshall, Morten Lauridsen, David Diamond, Eric Whitacre, Harold Budd, John Corigliano, Benjamin Lees, Christopher Rouse, Glenn Branca, Morton Subotnick, Alvin Lucier, Walter Piston, Jon Appleton, David Del Tredici, Michael Tilson Thomas, David C. Johnson, Charlemagne Palestine, Roger Sessions, Peter Schickele, Aaron Jay Kernis, Carter Pann, Charles Wuorinen, Alla Pavlova, Alan Hovhaness, Earl Wild, Michael Gordon, Bradley Joseph, Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, Joan La Barbara, James Signorile, Noël Lee, David Lang, Christian Wolff, Bernard Rands, Earle Brown, James Tenney, Jennifer Higdon, Paul Dirmeikis, Joshua Fineberg, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Henry Brant, Roger Reynolds, Ned Rorem, David Lewin. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Steve Reich, né Stephen Michael Reich le 3 octobre 1936 à New York, est un musicien et compositeur américain. Il est considéré comme l'un des pionniers de la musique minimaliste, un courant de la musique contemporaine jouant un rôle central dans la musique classique des États-Unis. Pour caractériser son œuvre, et spécialement ses compositions de la période 1965-1976, il préfère utiliser l'expression « musique de phases » (tr...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Marimba, Brian Jones, Harry Partch, Jack White, Jón Þór Birgisson, Bobby Hutcherson, Leigh Howard Stevens, Art Tripp, Evelyn Glennie, François Du Bois, Baja Marimba Band, Linda Maxey, Alex Jacobowitz, Bogdan Bacanu, Marina Calzado Linage, Keiko Abe, Reg Kehoe and His Marimba Queens, Ruth Underwood, Dave Pike, Dave Danford, Pedro Carneiro, Vida Chenoweth, Nancy Zeltsman, Jack Imel, Julius Wechter, Ney Rosauro, Robert Van Sice, Gordon Stout, List of Marimba Performers, Thristan Mendoza, Musekiwa Chingodza, Pius Cheung, Hokoyo Marimba, Zeferino Nandayapa, Jerry Tachoir. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 156. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 3 July 1969) known as Brian Jones was an English musician and founding member of The Rolling Stones. Jones was a gifted multi-instrumentalist, and known for the use of non-traditional instruments such as the sitar and marimba and to experiment with the slide guitar in the work of The Rolling Stones. Jones is also remembered for cultivating his image with flamboyant attire and a lifestyle that included recreational drug use during the dawn of a new youth culture that centered around "sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll." Jones was born in the Park Nursing Home in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on 28 February 1942. An attack of croup at the age of four left him with asthma, which lasted for the rest of his life. His middle-class parents, Lewis Blount Jones and Louisa Beatrice Jones (née Simmonds) were of Welsh descent. Brian had two sisters: Pamela, who was born on 3 October 1943 and who died on 14 October 1945 of leukemia; and Barbara, born in 1946. Both Jones's parents were interested in music his mother Louisa was a pianist who taught lessons, and in addition to his job as an aeronautical engineer, Lewis ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=81456 ... Read more

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The study of American, microtonal composer Harry Partch (1901-1974) is complicated by specious autobiographical accounts, contradictory theoretical positions, and a methodology predicated on a vague concept of 'intuition'. These complications are exacerbated by his use of a forty-three-tone scale, non-Western sources of inspiration, novel terms for preexisting ideas, and an integration of music, drama, and dance. In addition, his use of ratios to represent pitch, and the unique tablature notations for his nearly forty invented instruments create a seemingly insurmountable barrier to the analysis of his music. Yet while these complexities are initially overwhelming, they actually work to obscure the simplicity of Partch?s core ideas and compositional technique. At the foundation of all his ideas was an individualistic concept he called One Voice. One Voice was the process by which Partch projected his self image through his works. In doing so, he created a model that aimed to inspire others toward individual expression and artistic investigation. ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Claude Ballif, Alain Bancquart, Iannis Xenakis, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Pascal Dusapin, Kaija Saariaho, Ferruccio Busoni, Krzysztof Penderecki, Giacinto Scelsi, Maurice Ohana, Bruce Mather, Yuri Landman, Max Méreaux, Micro-Intervalle, Martin Smolka, Jean-Étienne Marie, Pascale Criton, Alois Hába, Bjørn Fongaard. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Charles Edward Ives est un compositeur américain né le 20 octobre 1874 et mort le 19 mai 1954. Après avoir appris la composition à l'université Yale, il abandonne le métier de compositeur au début du siècle pour se lancer dans les assurances et fonder une compagnie qui devient prospère. Il continue cependant à composer de la musique sans la faire publier ni jouer. À partir des années 1920 des problèmes de santé l'oblige à arrêter ses activités professionnelles et artistiques. À la même époque, il est découvert par l'avant-garde musicale de New York qui commence à faire jouer sa musique. La création dans les années 1930 de la Concord Sonata, et en 1947 de sa troisième symphonie qui obtient le prix Pulitzer, révèlent Ives à la critique et au public américain. Certaines œuvres d'envergure comme sa quatrième symphonie ne sont pourtant joué que bien après sa mort qui survient en 1954. La musique de Charles Ives est originale, à la fois par l'utilisation de techniques musicales avant-gardistes et par les emprunts à la musique populaire. Charles Ives est né à Danbury, dans l'État du Connecticut. Son père, George Ives, était chef de la musique de l'artillerie de l'union dans l'armée des États-Unis durant la guerre de Sécession. L'une des choses ayant pu l'avoir influencé fut d'avoir écouté dans la place de Danbury la fanfare de son père s...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Charles Manson, Captain Beefheart, the Residents, Brian Wilson, Tiny Tim, Harry Partch, Lucia Pamela, Wesley Willis, Syd Barrett, Joe Meek, Jandek, Crispin Glover, Skip Spence, Bruce Haack, Dr. Demento, Experimental Musical Instrument, Roky Erickson, Moondog, Daniel Johnston, Arcesia, Gary Wilson, Cherry Sisters, Florence Foster Jenkins, R. Stevie Moore, the Shaggs, Ariel Pink, Leila Bela, Art Paul Schlosser, Norton Records, Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, Larry Platt, Hasil Adkins, Tay Zonday, Eden Ahbez, Mrs. Elva Miller, Maya Bond, the Langley Schools Music Project, List of Experimental Musicians, Wild Man Fischer, Del Rubio Triplets, Wing, the Gomers, David Cronenberg's Wife, Gabby La La, Y. Bhekhirst, the Tinklers, Corn Mo, Paul Hawkins, Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, Sondra Prill, Abner Jay, Cromagnon, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Howard Luedtke, Camp Records, Halaka, Alvin Dahn, Judson Fountain, Shooby Taylor, Sexton Ming, Bingo Gazingo, Naomi Hall, Velvet Cacoon, Bobb Trimble, Ogden Edsl, Jan Terri, Jared Smith, Gertrude Morgan, Richard Nanes, Extradition Order, Adam Papagan, Robert Graettinger, Bj Snowden, the Anachronisms, Eilert Pilarm, George Tolhurst, Songs in the Key of Z. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 447. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charles Milles Manson (born November 12, 1934) is an American criminal who led what became known as the Manson Family (the "Family"), a quasi-commune that arose in California in the late 1960s. He was found guilty of conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders, carried out by members of the group at his instruction. He was convicted of the murders themselves through the joint-responsibility rule, which makes each member of a conspiracy guilty of crimes his fellow conspirators commit in furtherance of the conspiracy's...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42635 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Mark Hamill, Harry Partch, George Stevens, Donald Budge, Robert Culp, Kenneth Tobey, Paul Pierce, Russ Meyer, Robert Mcnamara, Sidney Howard, Billie Joe Armstrong, Brandon Lee, Willis O'brien, Raphael Saadiq, David A. Bednar, Stanley Miller, Drew Gooden, Robert Nichols, Dennis Eckersley, Lyndsy Fonseca, Keyshia Cole, David Murray, Bonnie Pointer, Brad Gilbert, Sheila E., Austin Nichols, William Bergsma, Max Baer Jr., Jeff Hanneman, Jon Ferguson, Jon Faddis, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, Richard Overstreet, Tony Lema, Mikael Bauer, Whitney Reed, Henry Kaiser, Mark Curry, Anita Pointer, Marshawn Lynch, John Markoff, Kirk Morrison, Robb Flynn, Karim Prince, Ruth Pointer, Howard Lincoln, June Pointer, Bill Lockyer, Benny Luke, Robert Colescott, Galen Rowell, Darrell Tucker. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Mark Hamill, né le 25 septembre 1951 à Oakland, Californie, États-Unis, est un acteur américain. Il est célèbre pour avoir tenu le rôle de Luke Skywalker dans la premiere trilogie de Star Wars. Après avoir grandi en Californie et au Japon, Mark Hamill fait des études d'art dramatique avant d'obtenir ses premiers rôles à la télévision. Repéré par George Lucas, qui désirait engager de jeunes acteurs inconnus sur le casting de l'épisode IV de La Guerre des étoiles, il acquiert un statut de star. Il tourne ensuite sous la caméra de Samuel Fuller, mais un accident de voiture, peu avant le tournage de L'Empire contre-attaque, entraîne une paralysie faciale qui limite son jeu d'acteur. Dans le très décrié Star Wars Holiday Special, les lésions sur le visage d'Hamill sont visibles car cela faisait quelques semaines seulement qu'il avait eu son accident. La popularité de son personnage de héros galactiq...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Pythagorean Tuning, Just Intonation, Bohlen-pierce Scale, Hexany, Harry Partch's 43-Tone Scale, List of Intervals in 5-Limit Just Intonation, Scale of Harmonics. Excerpt:Chord from just Bohlen-Pierce scale: C-G-A, tuned to harmonics 3, 5, and 7. "BP" above the clefs indicates Bohlen-Pierce notation. Play (help ·info ) The Bohlen Pierce scale ( BP scale ) is a musical scale that offers an alternative to the octave -repeating scales typical in Western and other musics, specifically the diatonic scale . Compared with octave-repeating scales, its intervals are more consonant with certain types of acoustic spectra . It was independently described by Heinz Bohlen , Kees van Prooijen and John R. Pierce . Pierce, who, with Max Mathews and others, published his discovery in 1984 , renamed the Pierce 3579b scale and its chromatic variant the Bohlen Pierce scale after learning of Bohlen's earlier publication. Bohlen had proposed the same scale based on consideration of the influence of combination tones on the Gestalt impression of intervals and chords . The intervals between BP scale pitch classes are based on odd integer frequency ratios, in contrast with the intervals in diatonic scales, which employ both odd and even ratios found in the harmonic series . Specifically, the BP scale steps are based on ratios of integers whose factors are 3, 5, and 7. Thus the scale contains consonant harmonies based on the odd harmonic overtones 3/5/7/9 ( play (help ·info )). The chord formed by the ratio 3:5:7 ( play (help ·info )) serves much the same role as the 4:5:6 chord (a major triad play (help ·info )) does in diatonic scales (3:5:7 = 1:1.66:2.33 and 4:5:6 = 2:2.5:3 = 1:1.25:1.5). Chords and modulation 3:5:7's intonation sensitivity pattern is similar to 4:5:6's (the just major chord), more si... ... Read more

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Chapters: Harry Partch, Lillian Fuchs, Karen Tuttle, Ernst Wallfisch, Kim Kashkashian, Jack Delano, Marcus Thompson, Oscar Shumsky, Paul Doktor, Rosemary Glyde, Jennifer Stumm, Cynthia Phelps, Ralph Farris, Tosca Kramer, Karen Dreyfus, Lev Zhurbin, Martha Strongin Katz, Michael Tree, Steven Ansell, Milton Katims, Michael Twomey, David Aaron Carpenter, Melia Watras, Milton Preves, Michelle Lacourse, Walter Trampler, Janee Munroe, Wayne Crouse, Emanuel Vardi, Sheila Browne, Yehonatan Berick, Scott Slapin, Lawrence Dutton, Alan de Veritch, Alexander Mishnaevski, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Michael Klotz, Karen Ritscher, Jodi Levitz, Harold Levin, Kay Slocum, Joseph de Pasquale, Carol Rodland, Paul Neubauer, Raphael Hillyer, Cathy Basrak, Roberto Díaz. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 141. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation. Harry Partch's instruments in performancePartch was born on June 24, 1901 in Oakland, California soon after his parents, both Presbyterian missionaries, fled the Boxer Rebellion in China. He spent his childhood in small, remote towns in Arizona and New Mexico, where he heard and sang songs in Mandarin, Spanish, and American Indian languages. Partch was sterile, probably due to childhood mumps, and most of his loving relationships were with men. As a child, he learned to play the clarinet, harmonium, viola, piano, and guitar. He began to compose at an early age, using the equal-tempered chromatic scale, the tuning system most common in Western music...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=147683 ... Read more

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The Definitive Master Work of a Genius
Rarely, if ever in your life do you come across a masterpiece. Think of Mutiny on the Bounty, Nordhoff and Hall as an example, the works of Eiseley or Bradbury or Joyce. But those are works of mere fiction.

Harry Partch was nothing if non-fiction. He was a scientist of musical theory. I knew the man, knew his instruments andhis work. Only later, after he died, did I try to understandhis masterwork, Genesis of a Music, and I'm still trying to.

Partch is a Titan in a world that went for Pop. Partch is the Steve Jobs to Bill Gates. His music theory was the genesis for the work of Phillip Glass and John Cage, an attempt, like the masters of old, Kepler and Galileo, to set down a definitive tome on the theory of what music really IS, in the sense of its intervals and temperaments, what is mere dissonance, and whatis the voice of god.

Any serious musician who hasn't studied Genesis of a Music is missing the calculus of his art, the holy grail of his study.

This one book defines the universe of melodic and inspirational sound that we call music. If ever there was a work with some meat on its bones, Genesis of a Music is it. You must carry it with you night and day, and only take it out late at night, in your study carel in some dark library, sneaking passages like a secret compact, a cipher schrivened on the papyrus of Isis.

Then if you're lucky enough to find one of his old vinyls,you can say you've heard the bells pealing from heaven above. ... Read more

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Title: Enclosure 3: Harry Partch.(Review)
Author: W. Anthony Sheppard
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1999
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: 55Issue: 3Page: 679(2)

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Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation. ... Read more