[LAU] [ot]: literature on arrangment/composition

[Dave Phillips]

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