American Classical Violists - Harry Partch, Lillian Fuchs, Karen Tuttle, Kim Kashkashian, Vladimir Bakaleinikov, Jack Delano, Ernst Wallfisch, Marcu (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Harry Partch, Lillian Fuchs, Karen Tuttle, Kim Kashkashian, Vladimir Bakaleinikov, Jack Delano, Ernst Wallfisch, Marcus Thompson, Oscar Shumsky, Carlton Cooley, Paul Doktor, David Schwartz, Rosemary Glyde, Jennifer Stumm, Lev Zhurbin, Cynthia Phelps, Steven Ansell, Ralph Farris, Emanuel Vardi, Tosca Kramer, Martha Strongin Katz, Karen Dreyfus, Raphael Hillyer, David Aaron Carpenter, Michael Tree, Milton Katims, Melia Watras, Milton Preves, Walter Trampler, Janee Munroe, Michelle LaCourse, Wayne Crouse, Sheila Browne, Louis Sve enski, Yehonatan Berick, Nokuthula Ngwenyama, Joseph de Pasquale, Lawrence Dutton, Alexander Mishnaevski, Alan de Veritch, Jodi Levitz, Scott Slapin, Peter Slowik, Geraldine Walther, Karen Ritscher, Roberto Diaz, Cathy Basrak, Harold Levin, Michael Klotz, Carol Rodland, Paul Neubauer, Kay Slocum. Excerpt: Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 - September 3, 1974) was an American composer and instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit (43-tone) just intonation. Harry Partch's instruments in performance by the Partch EnsemblePartch was born on June 24, 1901 in Oakland, California soon after his parents, both Presbyterian missionaries, fled the Boxer Rebellion in China. He spent his childhood in small, remote towns in Arizona and New Mexico, where he heard and sang songs in Mandarin, Spanish, and American Indian languages. As a child, he learned to play the clarinet, harmonium, viola, piano, and guitar. He began to compose at an early age, using the equal-tempered chromatic scale, the tuning system most common in Western music. However, Partch grew frustrated with what he felt were imperfections of the standard system...