Just Guitars
Microtonal Guitar Music
John Schneider, guitars
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Just Guitars
Carter Scholz - Rhythmicon I
Lou Harrison - Scenes from Nek Chand, Tandy's
Tango, Cinna, Palace Music, Plaint & Variations on 'Song of Palestine',
Serenado por Gitaro
Harry Partch - Letter from Hobo Pablo, December,
1942, Three Intrusions
Terry Riley - Harp of New Albion
John Schneider - Lament
John Schneider, guitars, vocals
members of Just Strings:
Rebekah Raff, kithara
Gene Sterling, diamond marimba
BRIDGE 9132
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This recording features the premiere recordings of works by the late Lou
Harrison and the legendary Harry Partch. John Schneider, guitarist and Los
Angeles radio personality performs on a wide variety of guitars using such
instruments as Partch’s microtonal Adapated Guitars, Martin, Gibson and Fender
guitars, a National Resophonic Guitar, and other instruments that feature
tuneable fretboards for various types of Just Intonation. Lou Harrison
(1917-2003) wrote his last guitar piece for National Steel guitar, custom
fretted in Just Intonation. The Scenes from Nek Chand uses a six-note
mode and is based on the sculpure and architecture of Nek Chand in northern
India. Harry Partch worked on the adapatation of guitars in the 1930s, using one
for his Barstow: 8 Hitchhikers’ Inscriptions (1941) (available
on BRIDGE 9041). The opening of Partch’s long lost song cycle, December
1942, begins with a setting of the jester’s song "Come Away
Death" from Shakespearre’s Twelfth Night. Three Intrusions (1949)
are the first compositions to use Partch’s newly invented Diamond Marimba
and the Adapted Guitar 2. Both of these works feature Schneider singing and
intoning the vocal parts, as well as performing on copies of Partch’s Adapted
Guitars.
Also available:
Just West Coast, John Schneider
guitars, BRIDGE 9041
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