Our longterm partners, The International Ekmelic Society have released the 4th Journal of the presentations from the 2021 edition of the ‘Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful’ Symposium, at which Donald gave his last presentation- on 19.5, with duo Contour. Patrick Ozzard-Low provided an article reflecting on this work, together with a Foreword by trumpeter, and long time collaborator of Donald, Stephen Altoft. It can be ordered from here.
Table of contents
-Agustín Castilla-Ávila: Prologue
-Stephen Altoft and Patrick Ozzard-Low: Personal reflections on Donald Bousted’s 19.5 for 19-division trumpet and malletKat
-Navid Bargrizan: The Lineage from Harry Partch to Manfred Stahnke
-Sam Cave: Resonance, Overtones, and Miniature Voice
-Rami Chahin: Microtonal: Music Classifications in Theory and Education
-Jim Dalton: A Software Instrument and Tool for Just Intonation in MaxMSP
-Caroline Delume: Flexibility of sound space in Francisco Luque’s music for plucked instruments
-Vytautas Germanavicius: Identification of Microtonal Interval Relations in Lithuanian Vocal and Instrumental Folk Music and their Application in Music Composition
-Franck Jedrzejewski: Petr Chernobrivets and the 20-Tone Universe
-Gerhard Klosch: The sliding Keyboard – The Construction of a New Pure Tonal Instrument
-Raphael Ophaus: Microtonality as a structure-forming principle in the work of Michael Quell
-Felipe Pinto d’Aguiar: Two pieces for solo guitar and one piece for 33 guitars utilizing microtonal scordatura
-Viktor Pushkar:The Family of 24-tone Unequal Temperaments
-Ulf-Diether Soyka: Notes on ekmelic Harmony: Partials, 3rd Messiaen Scale and Maqam Husseini
-Manfred Stahnke: “Just Intonation” – Possibilities in Playing and Hearing on String Instruments, especially Viola
-Andrew A. Watts: Tensio Novum: Microtonal Approaches to the Guitar in the Music of Brian Ferneyhough