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Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music.(Book review)
Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music. By Ben Johnston. Edited by Bob Gilmore. (Music in American Life.) Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. [xxxviii. 275 p. ISBN-10: 0-252-03098-2; ISBN-13: 978-025203-098-7. $40.] Bibliographic references, discography, index.
Early on in this magnificent collection of essays, editor Bob Gilmore quotes critic Mark Swed describing Ben Johnston as "probably our most subversive composer, a composer able to make both radical thinking and avant-garde techniques sound invariably gracious" (p. xi) This view is supported time and again throughout the forty-two essays Maximum Clarity contains, as Johnston takes thorny ...
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- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch December 1, 2006 700+ words
Maximum Clarity And Other Writings On Music Ben Johnston University of Illinois Press...College of Arts, England), "Maximum Clarity And Other Writings On Music...writings on music by Professor Ben Johnston who taught theory and composition...
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- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2007 700+ words
9780252030987 "Maximum clarity" and other writings on music. Johnston, Ben. U. of Illinois...This collection consists of the writings of American composer Ben Johnston (b. 1926)--41 in total, including some previously unpublished...
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- Magazine article from: Perspectives of New Music Gilmore, Bob January 1, 1995 700+ words
...theorists who have worked with microtonal tuning systems based on extended just intonation: Harry Partch (1901-1974), Ben Johnston (b.1926), and James Tenney (b.1934). In particular, I shall attempt to trace the legacy of ideas inherited by...
- Aliph Breaks Sound Barrier for VoIP Communications with Jawbone(TM) PC Edition,...
- Press release article from: Business Wire January 5, 2006 700+ words
SAN FRANCISCO & LAS VEGAS -- Aliph, developer of next-generation audio processing technologies and the highly acclaimed Jawbone(TM) Mobile Phone Headset, today announced the new Jawbone(TM) PC Edition, an intelligent headset for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications. The headset is
- Z-z-zing go the strings of the Kronos Quartet
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Wynne Delacoma September 21, 1986 700+ words
...and Quartet No. 3 by Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen. Ben Johnston's Quartet No. 4 also is on the program. "The Sculthorpe...and both composers have subsequently written works for us. Ben Johnston just wrote a quartet for us, and last night Terry Riley...
- ED practices 'golden rule' with hospital staff.
- Newspaper article from: ED Management August 1, 2009 700+ words
...and ask themselves what they would want done prior to admission and how they would want their patients treated," says Ben Johnston, MD, president of the emergency physician group at Morris (IL) Hospital. It is that attitude that helped the ED receive...
- Reflect Systems Expands Device Support and Introduces Interactive Features for...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 14, 2008 700+ words
...based in Dallas TX, is privately held. For more information, visit http://www.reflectsystems.com/. CONTACT: Ben Johnston of Reflect Systems Inc., +1-214-684-4572, bjohnston@reflectsystems.com Web site: http://www.reflectsystems...
- Lifer Hill gets ready to tackle his friends.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 26, 2004 700+ words
...With Castaignede, Springbok prop Cobus Visagie, Canadian scrum-half Morgan Williams plus England caps Alex Codling and Ben Johnston coached by Australian centre Rod Kafter, it's bemusing to find Sarries third from bottom in the Premiership. Hill believes...
