The Use of Ratios in the Player Piano Studies of Conlon Nancarrow

Year: 2001 Authors: Julie Scrivener

Core claim

Nancarrow extended Cowell’s ratio-based ideas by using ratios, including irrational ones, to organize multiple musical parameters beyond tempo.

Topics

ratios, tempo canons, just intonation, player piano, musical structure

Domains

ratios and proportions, irrational numbers, Fibonacci series, music composition, algorithmic structure, sound art

Methods

introductory survey, score analysis, comparative music analysis

Media

player piano, musical scores, tempo markings

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