| ||
I. Introduction (Part 4)Since his scores were intended for performers—and not for students—it is understandable why tablature notation was the most effective means to the end he had in mind. The result, however, is that students are precluded from following a score during real-time listening. A program was written in JAVA that allows the listener to visualize melodic relationships while hearing an audio output.
It should be understood that both program shave significant limitations in terms
of recreating the true force of Partch’s music. The sine waves that they
generate have almost no bearing on the actual sound and effect of his
instruments. The motivation for this project was to develop analytical tools
for the purpose of encouraging new scholarship. Partch, himself, was an
advocate for phenomenological experiences of music. He made recordings of his
music only to document it, and he did not believe that a recording could serve
the same purpose as a live performance. Music, for Partch must be experienced
with the body, not simply with the ears—or worse—as a mental abstraction.
|
