"Maximum clarity" and other writings on music /Ben Johnston ; edited by Bob Gilmore.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Achnowledgments -- Introduction -- Ben Johnston: A Chronology -- I. ON MUSIC THEORY -- Aesthetic Theory; Philosophical Background for Mathematical Theory; Musical Background for Application of Mathematical Theory 1959-60 -- Scalar Order as a Compositional Resource -- Proportionality and Expanded Musical Pitch Relations -- Microtonal Resources -- Tonality Regained -- Music Theory -- Rational Structure in Music -- A Notation System for Extended Just Intonation

II. ON MUSICAL AESTHETICS AND CULTUREMusical Intelligibiliity: Where Are We? -- A Talk on Contemporary Music -- Festivals and New Music -- Three Attacks on a Problem -- On Context -- Contribution to IMC Panel -- How to Cook an Albatross -- Art and Survival -- On Bridge-Building -- Seventeen Items -- Art and Religion -- Extended Just Intonation: A Position Paper -- A.S.U.C. Keynote Address -- Just Intonation and Mere Intonation -- Without Improvement -- Maximum Clarity -- III. SOME COMPOSITIONS -- On String Quartet numbers 2

On Sonata for Microtonal PianoThe Genesis of Knocking Piece -- Quintet for Groups: A Reminiscence -- On Carmilla -- On Crossings (String Quartet numbers 3 and String Quartet numbers 4) -- On the Age of Surveillance -- On String Quartet numbers 5 -- On String Quartet numbers 6 -- On Journeys -- On Sleep and Waking -- IV. ON OTHER COMPOSERS -- Letter from Urbana -- To Perspectives of New Music Re. John Cage -- The Corporealism of Harry Partch -- Harry Partch/John Cage -- Harry Partch's Cloud-Chamber Music -- Beyond Harry Partch -- Regarding La Monte Young

Notes on SourcesBibliography -- Discography -- Index -- back cover

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