LEADER 04509nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910957608403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613895837 010 $a9781283583381 010 $a1283583380 010 $a9780252091575 010 $a0252091574 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241143 035 $a(EBL)3413982 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711566 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11386561 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711566 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10694460 035 $a(PQKB)11381505 035 $a(OCoLC)811408988 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3413982 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593654 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389583 035 $a(OCoLC)923494468 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3413982 035 $a(Perlego)2383061 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241143 100 $a20060105d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a"Maximum clarity" and other writings on music /$fBen Johnston ; edited by Bob Gilmore 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (xxxviii, 275 pages) $cillustrations, music 225 0$aMusic in American life 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780252086717 311 08$a0252086716 311 08$a9780252030987 311 08$a0252030982 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265), discography (p. [267]-269), and index. 327 $aBen Johnston: A Chronology -- Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory -- Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 1959-60 -- Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource -- Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations -- Microtonal Resources -- Tonality Regained -- Music Theory -- Rational Structure in Music -- A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation -- 327 $aMusical Intelligibiliity: Where Are We? -- A Talk on Contemporary Music -- Festivals and New Music -- Three Attacks on a Problem -- On Context -- Contribution to IMC Panel -- How to Cook an Albatross -- Art and Survival -- On Bridge-Building -- Seventeen Items -- Art and Religion -- Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper -- A.S.U.C. Keynote Address -- Just Intonation and Mere Intonation -- Without Improvement -- Maximum Clarity -- On String Quartet no. 2 -- 327 $aOn Sonata for Microtonal Piano -- The Genesis of Knocking Piece -- Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence -- On Carmilla -- On Crossings (String Quartet no. 3 and String Quartet no. 4) -- On the Age of Surveillance -- On String Quartet no. 5 -- On String Quartet no. 6 -- On Journeys -- On Sleep and Waking -- Letter from Urbana -- To Perspectives of New Music Re. John Cage -- The Corporealism of Harry Partch -- Harry Partch/John Cage -- Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music -- Beyond Harry Partch -- Regarding La Monte Young -- Notes on sources. 330 8 $aDescribed by New York Times critic John Rockwell as "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer, " Ben Johnston reconceives familiar idioms--ranging from neoclassicism and serialism to jazz and southern hymnody--using just intonation. Johnston studied with Darius Milhaud, Harry Partch, and John Cage, and is best known for his String Quartet No. 4, a complex series of variations on Amazing Grace. This collection spans forty years and brings together forty-one of Johnston's most important writings, including many rare and several previously unpublished selections. They include position papers, theoretical treatises, program notes, historical reflections, lectures, excerpts from interviews, and letters, and they cover a broad spectrum of concerns--from the technical exegesis of microtonality to the personal and the broadly humanistic. A discography of commercially available recordings of Johnston's music closes out the collection. 410 0$aMusic in American life. 606 $aMusic$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMusic$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a780 700 $aJohnston$b Ben$01803973 701 $aGilmore$b Bob$f1961-$01803974 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957608403321 996 $a"Maximum clarity" and other writings on music$94351797 997 $aUNINA