Re: mathematic processes & tone clock

[dgoat <dgoat@quik.com>]

ernesto schnack wrote:

>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:33:15 +0100, "Katja" <e.k.vetter@freeler.nl> said:
> > day the audience will enjoy this music on a large scale. You can check
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>>some 
>>of the Tone Clock theory on www.xs4all.nl/~taede/toonklok/main-e.html.
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>I find this very interesting, but I don't understand that website at all.
> For example he says "In the tone clock we find the fourths in the ninth
>hour".  What does that mean? By the ninth hour, i assume he means where 9
>would be on a regular clock, but I don't see how that has anything to
>with 4ths...
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>Ernesto
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Number theory in composition can be useful to the composer in trying to 
break out of established habits, but music composed by number for the 
sake of composing by number rarely works. Make music first, analyse 
later....

D.G.