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	Music Reviews
		Diamond met Gide shortly after he arrived in Paris, maintaining a friendship that included the two of them playing Bach, Chopin, and ultimately a four-hand arrangement of Psalm on the piano.
		Though Diamond wrote the work for Yo-Yo Ma at the urging of Gerard Schwarz, Ma’s contractual obligations to Sony resulted in the substitution of cellist Janos Starker when the recording was made in the Seattle Opera House.
		Diamond’s first mature symphony was written under the influence of his teacher Nadia Boulanger (who seems to have trained just about every notable American composer of Diamond’s era); it was championed by conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, who premiered it with the New York Philharmonic Society in Carnegie Hall on December 21, 1941.
	www.hometheaterhifi.com /volume_10_3/music-41-august-2003.html (3670 words)

	Tonality diamond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Equivalently, the diamond may be considered as a set of pitch classes, where a pitch class is an equivalence class of pitches under octave equivalence.
		The five and seven limit tonality diamonds can be viewed as having a highly regular geometry within the modulatory space which makes all the non-unison elements of the diamond at a distance of one unit from the unison.
		There are seven members to the 5-limit diamond, 13 to the 7-limit diamond, 19 to the 9-limit diamond, 29 to the 11-limit diamond, 41 to the 13-limit diamond, and 49 to the 15-limit diamond; these suffice for most purposes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tonality_diamond (510 words)

	Edison:Instumental Selections on the Edison Diamond Discs (1912-1929)
		Marimba and Hawaiian songs became popular during the early part of the 20th century in the United States, reflecting the increased exposure Americans had to foreign styles of music.
		The marimba style was very popular with buyers of Edison records according to catalogs of the time.
		The Edison label arranged to have "Tone Tests" of the new Diamond Discs where an artist such as Marie Rappold or Anna Case would sing with a phonograph recording of her voice before a large audience.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/edhtml/edgenre.html (3775 words)

	SoundtrackNet : Blood Diamond Soundtrack
		There are, of course, similarities between the two scores: the instrumentation and use of vocals give certain cues the ethnic African sound, both scores rely heavily on percussion and rhythm, and when the plots for these films take over from the setting and characters, the music follows suit by providing background pacing and tension.
		Blood Diamond is not thematic; instead, it is melodic, rhythmic, and ethnic, while tailored to the nuances of each scene.
		The melody is easily discerned from the rhythmic parts: it is in 6/8 time and consists of chords over which is layered a staccato string pattern that is kind of a backwards waltz: the emphasis (higher note) falls on the 3 and 6 count instead of the 1.
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database/?id=4572 (741 words)

	Newband Instrumentarium
		The Boo (Bamboo Marimba): another of Harry Partch's mallet instruments, the bamboo marimba originally consisted of 64 tuned bamboo tubes arranged in 6 rows, with a very small tube in a row of its own on top.
		Diamond Marimba: a marimba made of Brazilian rosewood and pernambuco resonating over tubes of bamboo, this instrument is named for its diamond-shaped layout.
		Quadrangularis Reversum: built in 1965 as companion instrument to the diamond marimba, the quadrangularis reversum is a marimba that has a diamond-shaped center that it is the exact mirror (reverse) of the diamond marimba.
	www.newband.org /instruments.htm (1531 words)

	Harry Partch Biography
		Notation for the Diamond Marimba is arranged to resemble the shape of the instrument, with the exact position to be played shown at the exact time and place in the music.
		The oldest percussion is the Diamond Marimba, 1946, its thirty six blocks arranged diagonally in major and minor hexads.
		The Bamboo Marimba (Boo) is constructed of ascending rows of hollow bamboo closed at one end; a tongue is cut in the opposite end and struck with a stick.
	www.composerjohnbeal.com /Partch.html (1887 words)

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		Dubbed-in Interludes: Adapted Guitar, Diamond Marimba, Bass Marimba, 1972.
		Revised and retitlted Daphne of the Dunes: Adapted Viola, Kithara II, Surrogate Kithara, Harmonic Canons II and III, Chromelodeon I, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, Gourd Tree, Diamond Marimba, Bamboo Marimba, Bass Marimba, Pre-recorded Tape, 1967.
		Conductor, Cast of Large Cast of Characters, Marimba Eroica, Bass marimba, Diamond Marimba, Surrogate Kithara, Castor and Pollux, Kithara II, Chromelodeon II Two Violins, Viola, Cello, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, String Bass, Spoils of War, Jazz Percussion, 1961.
	www.uncg.edu /mus/courses/msbrewst/amr/contents/parcmp.txt (795 words)

	Just Intonation
		That's diamond in the sense of a baseball diamond, not a 14 karat.
		The Diamond Marimba was one (shown above), and the Quadrangularis Reversium was another - a mirror image of the Diamond Marimba (with some extra notes added for good measure!).
		Another amazing feature of this diamond is that if you tune a guitar to any row and fret it to play the notes of the diamond, all the other rows can will be represented by frets going straight across the neck.
	www.organicdesign.org /peterson/tuning/ji.html (603 words)

	Rosenthall.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The principle of the tonality diamond derives from Partch's belief that, in a system of just intonation, Major and minor tonalities coexist on an equal basis; major being derived from the harmonic series, (f, 2f, 3f, 4f,.
		acting on this idea, Partch created the "Diamond Marimba," an instrument with a diamond shaped keyboard on which diagonal sweeps produce arpeggiated six-note chords (hexads) consisting of the odd number degrees of a series, through eleven; harmonic or subharmonic depending on the direction of the sweep.
		While he takes justifiable pride in the instruments he has built, he considers his time best spent in composition, and would willingly employ professional craftsmen to execute his instrument designs, were it economically feasible.
	o-art.org /history/77-83/instBuilders/Rosenthall.html (688 words)

	Duet - Marimba, Xylophone and Vibraphone
		A great up-tempo marimba duet - this piece can be played on one 5-octave instrument (it can also easily be adapted to a 4 1/3 octave instrument).
		(requires one 4 1/3-octave and one 5-octave marimba), this piece is a study in subtly and nuance and the melodic and harmonic elements are performed in a tremolo (rolled) fashion throughout.
		an excellent addition to the duet literature for marimba and is appropriate for both solo and chamber music recitals.
	www.honeyrock.net /duet-mxv.htm (521 words)

	French Horn Experience: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Diamond Marimba is one of the most interesting instruments of Partch.
		To emulate this instrument, I sampled a real marimba and pitch and time shifted the samples to the frequencies derived from Partch's just intonation ratios.
		For this piece, two controllers were used to drive the sampler: a keyboard controller with the tunings mapped linearly from top to bottom across the keyboard and a diamond shaped controller of my own design built with Interlink FSR's as the sensors.
	personalwebs.oakland.edu /~saruthma/dm.html (177 words)

	Harry Partch Biography
		He is one of many well-noted composers to work with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for instruments he built himself tuned to a just intonation scale with 43 notes to the octave, using 11-limit.
		Often this scale was organized by an altered (some say plagiarized) form of Max Meyer's tonality diamond whose diagonals produce Otonalities (o=over, or 'major') and Utonalities (u=under or 'minor'), a concrete example being the layout of his diamond marimba.
		He learned to play the clarinet and guitar as a child, and there was also a harmonium in the house, which he played.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Partch_Harry.html (771 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page
		The 11-limit tonality diamond is clearly embodied in Partch's diamond marimba.
		The Diamond Marimba was a marimba with keys arranged in a physical manefestation of the 11-limit tonality diamond.
		The Quadrangularis Reversum was an inverted Diamond Marimba with auxiliary keys on either side.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Harry_Partch (1328 words)

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	Obtěžovat Partch
		Diamond Marimba byl marimba s klíči uspořádanými ve fyzickém manefestation 11-limitovat diamant hudebního klíče.
		Bass Marimba a Marimba Eroica mělo více tradičních lineárních nákresů.
		Mazda Marimba byl využil Mazda žárovek a pojmenoval podle Zoroastrian boha Ahura Mazda.
	obtezovat-partch.navajo.cz (1043 words)

	Forster's Diamond
		The Diamond Marimba in Plate 8 is based on a 13-limit tonality diamond.
		Furthermore, on the 13-limit Diamond Marimba, the neutral axis produces the tone of the “octave,” ratio 2/1, above the following 15 bars in the
		The Diamond Marimba stand consists of six parts: a lower base, four poles, and an upper platform.
	www.chrysalis-foundation.org /Forster's_Diamond.htm (827 words)

	NewMusicbox
		This approach took a leap ahead with Harry Partch who built his Diamond Marimba in 1946, using three-dozen woodblocks with bamboo resonators, tuned to his own 43-tone-to-the-octave system.
		Partch's majestic Quadrangularis Reversum, incorporating five wooden marimbas, was built in 1965; his Eucal Blossom was completed in 1967 and used 33 sections of bamboo to yield a sound "even shorter and sharper than that of the Boos." All these instruments are featured in Partch's last great theater piece, Delusion Of The Fury (1969).
		Some employ a single instrument: marimba in Roger Reynolds' Autumn Island (1986), Jacob Druckman's Reflections On The Nature Of Water (1986), Milton Babbitt's Beaten Path (1988), and Beata Moon's Makoto (2000); and even the triangle in Alvin Lucier's Silver Streetcar For The Orchestra (1988).
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=3185 (2900 words)

	Bass Marimba
		Lowest bar: Third G below middle C. Highest bar: A below middle C. The Bass Marimba is by far the largest and most powerful instrument I have built.
		The reason for the cavity resonators is that extremely low frequencies require extremely long tubes, which, in turn, would require a high stand for the instrument and a high riser for the musician to stand on.
		In all 24 bars on the Bass Marimba, I tuned the first three modes of vibration to produce exact harmonic ratios 1:4:8 in each bar.
	www.chrysalis-foundation.org /bass_marimba.htm (395 words)

	Harry Partch---The Works
		surrogate kithara, chromelodeon, diamond marimba and boo in 1955
		diamond marimba, boo, cloud chamber bowls and speaking rhythmic voice
		canons, 2 chromelodeons, bloboy, koto, crychord, diamond marimba, bass marimba,
	www.harrypartch.com /partchworks.htm (1024 words)

	DRAM
		Bates, diamond marimba; George Bishop, voice; Vincent Bouchot, voice; Barbara Browning, kithara (zither); E.
		Mitchell, diamond marimba; Danlee Mitchell; Partch Ensemble, Performing Group; Harry Partch, Performer, harmonic canon, kithara (zither); Linda Schell Pluth, bass marimba, cloud chamber bowls; J.
		Ludlow, voice; Danlee Mitchell, bass marimba, kithara (zither), harmonic canon; Lesley Olson, flute; Harry Partch, Performer, adapted viola, guitar, voice, kithara (zither), chromelodeon, harmonic canon; Eugene Paul; Vincenzo Prockelo, oboe; Liz Schmidt, piano; Don Thompson, oboe; Joseph Varhula; W.
	dram.nyu.edu /dram/Artist/8007 (341 words)

	The Instruments of Harry Partch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		With this method Partch found it was fairly simple for singers to cope with the new scale.
		-- This is actually a Diamond Marimba with the tones reversed from top to bottom, and with the addition of two larger, separate rows of blocks on each side.
		Boos (Bamboo Marimbas) I and II -- These consist of sixty-four pieces of bamboo tuned by cutting a tongue of the necessary ratio into the wood.
	www.microtonal-synthesis.com /instruments.html (910 words)

	AMRPartchCom.html
		Castor and Pullox, Kithara II, Adapted Viola, Surrogate Kithara, Chromelodeon, Bamboo Marimba, Diamond Marimba, Cloud-Chamber Bowls, Spoils of War, Bass Marimba, 1958.
		Revised and retitlted Daphne of the Dunes: Adapted Viola, Kithara II, Surrogate Spoils of War, Gourd Tree, Diamond Marimba, Bamboo Marimba, Bass Marimba, Pre-recorded Tape, 1967.
		Conductor, Cast of Large Cast of Characters, Marimba Eroica, Bass marimba, Diamond Marimba, Surrogate Kithara, Castor and Pollux, Kithara II, Chromelodeon II Two Violins, Viola, Cello, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, String Bass, Spoils of War, Jazz Percussion, 1961.
	www.o-art.org /history/50s&_60s/HPartch/AMRPartch/AMRPartchCom.html (783 words)

	DRAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Stylistically they are among his least adventurous pieces, their texture dividing quite conventionally into melody, simple strummed accompaniment, and bass line; but the quasi-vocal nature of the melodic line provides an ideal bridge to the songs that follow.
		Under the title Ulysses Turns Homeward From the Edge of the World, the second version (for clarinet, cello, Diamond Marimba and Boo) was premièred on November 7, 1956 at a Faculty Chamber Music Concert at the University of Illinois, sandwiched between works by Debussy and Beethoven.
		Leda and the Swan/Insemination (Kithara and Surrogate Kithara and
	dlib.nyu.edu /dram/note.cgi?id=29237 (4323 words)

	Microtonal Music by Prent Rodgers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		There is code in the HTML pointed to by the picture of the diamond marimba that invokes the magic to get the plug-in to process the page.
		Someone who understands a bit of html coding can use the applet to display a lattice instead of a diamond, if so inclined.
		It's also possible to replace the images with pictures of writhing humans and the marimba samples with carefully tuned screams.
	prodgers13.home.comcast.net /diamond/diamonds.htm (202 words)

	The Microbeat: Harry Partch, Erv Wilson, Ivor Darreg
		As you may know, Partch was a hobo during the late thirties and early forties and he always lived with the conundrum of being a creator and having to find space to store his creations.
		So here I was, a three year old, playing on the Boo, Diamond Marimba, and hearing all this microtonal music.
		As a part of the Partch Ensemble from '65 to '67, we performed at Royce Hall, I and later became his assistant at UCSD where he was a Regent's Professor in the Music Department.
	tonalsoft.com /pub/microbeat/beat.2005-03-12.12-00.aspx (963 words)

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