#2742: Just Intonation

New Sounds | May 24, 2010

Guitarist John Schneider and percussionist TJ Troy perform live works that draw on Asian and Near Eastern music, and on alternate forms of tuning. Schneider (also a Los Angeles radio personality) uses a guitar that features a tuneable fretboard for various types of Just Intonation. Incidentally, Lou Harrison (1917-2003) wrote his last guitar piece for a National Steel guitar, custom fretted in Just Intonation. For this New Sounds, we'll hear Schneider and Troy perform some music by Lou Harrison, and more.

PROGRAM #2742, “Just Guitars” with John Schneider (First aired on Friday, 12/7/07)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
John Schneider & T.J. Troy	Live	Lou Harrison: Us ul [4:00] J. Schneider: Tombeau For Lou – Plaint [2:30] Passacaglia [3:00]	Not commercially available. Due out as part of “Por Gitaro” in March 2008 on Mode Records. More about John Schneider
Lou Harrison	Por Gitaro	In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel [6:30]	Mode Records, due in March 2008 www.moderecords.com
John Schneider, w/ T.J. Troy	Live	L. Harrison: Jahla, Suite #2 [3:00] trad: Semai’i Kurd [4:30]	Not commercially available. See above.
Harry Partch	Live recording Mills College 2007	Pollux, from “Castor & Pollux” [2:00]	Not yet commercially available.

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