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Among my many interests in Music Theory are the following:
Here are some resources for my TUNING AND TEMPERAMENTS class at The Boston Conservatory
ALSO SEE PAGE TWO OF MUSIC THEORY PAGES -- FOR RESOURCES USEFUL TO MY BOSTON CONSERVATORY FORM AND ANALYSIS CLASS (including videos)
BETWEEN U S: A HyperHistory of American Microtonalists
By Kyle Gann
Encyclopedia of microtonal music theory
Center for Microtonal Music in Southern California
Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony
ZARLINO
Just Intonation in Renaissance A Cappella Singing
Ross W. Duffin* Just Intonation in Renaissance Theory and Practice
Baroque Ensemble Tuning in extended 1/6 comma meantone
Bradley Lehmann's site (Bach's WTC tuning)
Another proposed WTC tuning (1/18 Pythagorean comma!)
A Brief History of the Monochord
Corporeal Meadows the official Partch site
Harry Partch Information Center
An Introduction to Historical Tunings
Instruments and Notation Software for microtonal music
Their site also has Free--important / significant books on tuning including:
An Elementary Treatise on Musical Intervals and Temperament (1876) by R.H.M. Bosanquet
Essay on Intervals, Harmonics, and the Temperament of the Musical Scale (1835) by Wesley S.B. Woolhouse
On The Sensations Of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music (1875) by Hermann L.F. Helmholtz (English translation of the third German Edition)
Divisions of the Tetrachord (1991) by John Chalmers
Bach and others in Well-Temperament |
Harry Partch Documentary in 6 parts |
ALSO SEE PAGE TWO OF MUSIC THEORY PAGES -- FOR RESOURCES USEFUL TO MY BOSTON CONSERVATORY FORM AND ANALYSIS CLASS (including videos)
In 2005, I received a research grant from MACRO (link) for analysis of tonal palindromic compositions.
Palindromes are the same forward and backward.
A classic verbal example is:Madam. I'm Adam
Musical palindromes include:
My study includes works that have a clear tonal center because of the different issues at work in palindromic, non-tonal music such as the works of Webern.
I am interested in the nature of reversed harmonic progressions and the maintenance of a consistent tonal language in a palindromic setting.
I will eventually post some examples here along with a discussion of some of my findings.
Jim is on the faculty of The Boston Conservatory, teaching music theory, ear training and world music courses for both the Music Theory and Music Education Departments.
Jim maintains a private teaching studio in partnership with his wife, Maggi.
They also own and operate a publishing company, Singing String Music Publications.
He has written articles for Blues Revue Magazine and is the author of Mandolin for Beginners, published by Workshop Arts, Inc./Alfred Publishing. He is a frequent guest lecturer on topics such as composition, choral arranging and Irish traditional music.
He recently (2004-2005) received a MACRO research grant (Univ. of Wisconsin) to study and analyze palindromic compositions in the concert music repertoire and presented this work at the 2005 Macro Musician's Workshop in Madison WI.
Jim Dalton endorses and plays the Phoenix Neoclassical Mandolin
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