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autoharp
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« on: 19:34:28, 21-09-2008 »
I encountered this score by Joseph Byrd this morning.

http://renewablemusic.blogspot.com/2008/08/joseph-byrd-fish-1961.html

which makes one wonder how many other pieces of this type existed before Terry Riley's In C. (Apparently this was published in La Monte Young's Anthology: but my copy only has the instructions, not the dots).

The early history of American minimalism usually credits only four composers: I suspect the true number should be much higher.

Let's hear it for Terry Jennings, for example.

And here's a some info about Dennis Johnson by Kyle Gann.

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2007/10/remembering_november.html
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« Reply #1 on: 10:25:39, 22-09-2008 »
Absolutely. Daniel Wolf (whose blog is linked) knows a lot about this stuff and the whole West Coast scene back then.
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« Reply #2 on: 19:48:52, 30-09-2008 »
By coincidence, have come across part of the instructions for La Monte Young's so-called Henry Flynt piece (incomplete unfortunately).

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/davidtudor/zoom/zoom_grl_tudor34.html
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« Reply #3 on: 19:55:14, 30-09-2008 »
Did we really have this thread in March last year? Time really flies!

http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=507.0

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« Reply #4 on: 00:23:10, 01-10-2008 »
And the examples cited there can hardly be regarded as minimal in comparison to those in this thread - except Vexations.
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« Reply #5 on: 03:22:49, 01-10-2008 »
Quote from: pim_derks on 19:55:14, 30-09-2008
Did we really have this thread in March last year?
I don't remember ever reading that thread! But most of rather misses the point (or several points), doesn't it? ...
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« Reply #6 on: 09:26:06, 01-10-2008 »
Quote from: autoharp on 19:48:52, 30-09-2008
By coincidence, have come across part of the instructions for La Monte Young's so-called Henry Flynt piece (incomplete unfortunately).

http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/digitized_collections/davidtudor/zoom/zoom_grl_tudor34.html

Fabulous! I love how he devotes so much space to "ways in which one might count a large number of bangs".
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