source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:23:15 -0800 Subject: Partch's antecedents From: Will Grant Daniel Wolf's relevant and interesting remarks about Partch's antecedents do seem to assume that one can create something original only from traditional materials. Yet many of us working during the 60s and 70s developed our work from what "came naturally," trying even consciously to ignore received theories, especially in music. Partch had stated in the generation before ours that this was just what he was trying to do. I think Partch's "harmonic complexity" may have originated genuinely within himself. Perhaps he accepted as musical terms some ideas that had already become current in the theater, through the work of Artaud et al. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 00:45 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02108; Wed, 13 Nov 1996 00:46:17 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02106 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA10178; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:46:15 -0800 Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:46:15 -0800 Message-Id: <9611122344.AA23052@vongole.MIT.EDU> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu