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Genesis of a Music is a book first published in 1949 by microtonal composer Harry Partch (1901–1974).

Partch first presents a polemic against both equal temperament and the long history of stagnation in the teaching of music; according to Alex Ross, this is "the most startling forty-five-page history of music ever written". In particular, Partch holds Johann Sebastian Bach responsible for "the movement toward equal-tempered tuning, which meant that composers could not absorb the scales of other world traditions; and the urge to make music ever more instrumental and abstract."[1]

He then goes on to explain his tuning theory based on just intonation, the ensemble of musical instruments of his own invention (such as the "Surrogate Kithara, a struck-string, harplike instrument",[2] and the guitar with movable frets he used to compose Barstow[3]), and several of his largest musical compositions.

The book has been highly influential to succeeding generations of microtonal composers, including Lou Harrison,[4] Ben Johnston,[5] and James Tenney.[6] A revised and enlarged second edition was published just before Partch's death in 1974.[7]

Concepts

Partch presents 4 "basic monophonic concepts":

  1. Consonance and dissonance: "The ear informs us that tones which are in small-number proportion, say in the relation of 2 to 1, are strong, clear, powerful, consonant."&91;8&93;
    • "The smaller the number involved in the [interval] ratios, the more consonant the ratio; the larger the numbers, the more dissonant".&91;9&93;
  2. "Dual Identity": "Every ratio of a Monophonic system is at least a dual identity."&91;8&93;
    • "Odentity [is] determined by the odd-number ratio component of the numerator, and another one, the Udentity [is] determined by the odd-number component of the denominator. A ratio thus always belongs to two tonalities, an Otonality in accordance with its Odentity, and an Utonality in accordance with its Udentity."&91;9&93;
  3. Minor: "Under-number Tonality, or Utonality ("minor"), is the immutable faculty of ratios, which in turn represent an immutable faculty of the human ear."&91;8&93;
    • See: Arithmetic progression and Undertone series
  4. History: Music has appeared to have advanced up the harmonic series throughout history.&91;8&93;
    • Pythagorean tuning is 3-limit, "just intonation" often refers to 5-limit tuning, while Partch uses an 11-limit tuning. Partch admirer Ben Johnston uses 31-limit or higher "extended just intonation". See: Emancipation of the dissonance

Editions

  • Genesis of a Music: Monophony: the relation of its music to historic and contemporary trends; its philosophy, concepts, and principles; its relation to ... and its application to musical instruments, University of Wisconsin Press, 362 pp., 1949. ASIN B0007DM7I8
  • Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments, Second Edition, Da Capo Press, Paperback, 544 pp., 1979. {{ISBN|0-306-80106-X}}. 2009: {{ISBN|9780786751006}}.

References

1. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/04/18/050418crmu_music|title=Off the Rails|last=Ross|first=Alex|date=18 April 2005|work=The New Yorker|page=199|accessdate=4 January 2013}}
2. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/content/printVersion/162953/|title=New York Songs of the Open Road|last=Gann|first=Kyle|date=23 January 2001|work=The Village Voice|accessdate=4 January 2013}}
3. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.laweekly.com/2009-05-28/music/harry-partch-39-s-boxcar-revelations/|title=Harry Partch's Boxcar Revelations|last=Payne|first=John|date=27 May 2009|work=Los Angeles Weekly|accessdate=4 January 2013}}
4. ^{{cite news|url=http://archives.chronogram.com/issue/2011/10/Music/Lou-Harrison-Outsider-Inside|title=Lou Harrison: Outsider Inside|last=Aaron|first=Peter|date=29 September 2011|work=Chronogram|accessdate=4 January 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://archive.is/20130215171716/http://archives.chronogram.com/issue/2011/10/Music/Lou-Harrison-Outsider-Inside|archivedate=15 February 2013|df=}}
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php?article=25644|title=They score! Composers John Harbison and Ben Johnston Have Left Their Mark on History|last=Tabachnik|first=Sandy|date=17 April 2009|work=Isthmus|accessdate=4 January 2013}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.swr.de/swr2/donaueschingen/programme/1999/werke/-/id=2136902/nid=2136902/did=3328638/lddkz/index.html|title=Tenney, James: Song'n Dance for Harry Partch|author=James Tenney/Harry Partch|others=Lydia Jeschke (trans.)|year=1999|publisher=Südwestrundfunk|accessdate=4 January 2013|language=de}}
7. ^{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60E1FF83C5B0C758DDDA90994DD404482|title=Sonata for Chromelodeon|last=Falkenstein|first=Michelle|date=16 October 2005|work=The New York Times|accessdate=4 January 2013}}
8. ^1 2 3 Partch (2009), p.86-90. {{ISBN|9780786751006}}.
9. ^1 Dunn, David (2000). Harry Partch: An Anthology of Critical Perspectives, p.27-8. {{ISBN|9789057550652}}.

External links

  • Preface from the original edition
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