Composer/guitarist John Schneider brings his microtonal guitars into the studio, to play his “Tombeau for Lou Harrison,” on this New Sounds. Also, there's music by Lou Harrison for just intonation guitar, inspired by the Baroque era.
Plus, listen to speech-based music by composer Ben Johnston. Johnston's work, "Tavern" is taken from texts by Rumi, and uses the outer limits of guitar tuning. It actually took over 12 years for Schnieder to learn to both tune the guitar, and to sing in microtonal counterpoint in opposite directions to what he plays on the guitar. That, and more.
PROGRAM #3094, With John Schneider, “Tombeau for Lou Harrison” (First aired on Thurs. 7/8/10)
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ARTIST(S) |
RECORDING |
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John Schneider |
Harrison: Por Gitaro: Suites for Tuned Guitars |
Harrison: Serenade - Sonata [2:09] |
Mode 195 |
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John Schneider |
Live, WNYC 7/7/10 |
Schneider: Tombeau for Lou Harrison – Valse Triste [3:00] |
This performance not commercially available. |
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John Schneider |
Live, WNYC 7/7/10 |
Ben Johnston: The Tavern, excerpts [7:00] |
This performance not commercially available. |
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John Schneider |
Live, WNYC 7/7/10 |
Schneider: Men are Men & Mountains are Mounrains - Tombeau for James Tenney [12:00] |
This performance not commercially available. |
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Array Music |
Ear Magazine: Vol. 15, No. 7, "New Music Canada" |
James Tenney: Harmonium No. 5 |
Out of print, but Amazon.com seems to have rare copies of the magazine (and CD) OR stream through acousticlab notes on psychoacoustics |