source file: m1526.txt Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:58:44 -0700 Subject: Partch Bio and Bill's remarks... From: "Jonathan M. Szanto" Dear Bill and all tunologists ~ ~ ~ Regarding the Gilmore Partch biography, Bill Alves had the following among his comments: >Unfortunately, the unavailability of his scores and the difficulty of >rendering them in an easily-understood notation has made such analysis >infrequent, at least from what I've seen or heard about. Why doesn't >someone publish facsimilies of his scores, at least, with a guide to >reading them, so that we can just peruse his scores in libraries like every >other major composer of this century? Well, Bill, if you had visited Corporeal Meadows (address in my .sig below) anytime within the last few weeks you would have seen the following: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Partch scores to be available: Schott Musik International will be publishing scores of the works of Harry Partch at some point in the near future. You may see the latest quarterly magazine containing the announcement online at: http://www.schott-music.com/english/news.html Look for the Journal, Issue Four, July/August (Note: this will require the Acrobat Reader from Adobe Systems, found at: http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/download.html [Posted: 08/15/98]" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So, there we go. Being my own devil's advocate, I wouldn't blame you considering the Spring has been kind of quiet. Nonetheless -- I've hesitated just blindly including the Tuning List in our email updates, but if any of you individually want to get brief announcements of just such news, along with any other additions to the Partch world, drop me a line at: putmeonthedamnlist@corporeal.com ..and you'll know when anything of importance happens that has any relation to Partch. Really. Furthermore, in a semi-humorous tone, I have to grin when I see Bill mentioning having the scores "like every other major composer of this century", if only because I don't think of Partch that way -- there haven't *been* any other composers like him. If ever there was someone **not** about notes, well... But some people like to see scores, and I can understand that. Sometimes. So I guess that's enough for now. Write if you want updates, as I'd like to keep it on an individual basis rather than blanket-mailing to the various lists. I've been kind of quiet here lately, maybe too many differential equations floating around the bitstream, masquerading as concertos. I've got some thoughts for sometime next week. Til then, I still love all people who try to stay in tune. As long as they're corporeal... Cheers, Jon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jonathan M. Szanto | Corporeal Meadows: Harry Partch, online. . . jszanto@adnc.com | http://www.corporeal.com/