Genesis of a music
by Harry Partch · first published 1949
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Read: Harry Partch - Genesis of a Music. Or: Meyer - The Musician’s Arithmetic. They explain music based on fundamental acoustic/aural/sonic principles, instead of all the accumulated cruft of western music theory. You first have to understand…
on “Ask HN: Tools to Learn Music Theory?” ↗…(as opposed to the "the only option"). 2) Harry Partch built many of his own instruments to circumvent issues from 12ET and composed music just for them. He describes his conceptualizations of JI in "Genesis Of A Music": https://www.amazon.com/Genesis-Music-Account-Creative-Fulfil... 3) Paul Hindemtith also has some opinions on the matter, though both Partch and I disagree with his points of view. Nonetheless he has…
on “What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation” ↗Harry Partch has a book Genesis of a Music, which is half autobiography and half a theory that all melody derives from the micro pitch variations of speech - as in melody is a stretched out version of how we speak. I don't know if this idea has…
on “Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)” ↗…rapid computation. This is critical for the Partch case, as he computed many tables of frequencies by hand to support his compositional technique. Partch recognized the human-math-music relation in "Genesis of a Music." He includes in this text some samples of his hand-computed tables of frequency values of overtones and (importantly) undertones which support the basis is technique. Partch's techniques were so far-fetched…
on “Show HN: Story Jam, Your Chord Progression Copilot” ↗…rapid computation. This is critical for the Partch case, as he computed many tables of frequencies by hand to support his compositional technique. Partch recognized the human-math-music relation in "Genesis of a Music." He includes in this text some samples of his hand-computed tables of frequency values of overtones and (importantly) undertones which support the basis is technique. Partch's techniques were so far-fetched…
on “Show HN: Story Jam, a music composition tool for Storytellers” ↗