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From: brucec@shark.UUCP (The Traveller in Black @ The Old Phoenix)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical,net.music.synth
Subject: Re: Microtonal music questions
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 16:18:10 EST
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There was a composer named Harry Partch who worked for many years with
microtonal scales (predominantly 41-tone, I think, but I may be wrong).  He
built instruments designed for those scales, such as a set of glass bells.  I
have several articles on him packed in a box in someone else's attic, so I
have to fly on memory for this one.  Partch died three or four years ago, as
I remember.

On a slight aside from classical music, I believe that the gamelan music of
Java and Burma is microtonal (it sounds that way, anyhow).  There's  a
gamelan group local to this area (Portland, OR), so maybe someone around here
can respond on that.

				Bruce Cohen
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