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

[Frank Barknecht]

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__