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Category:	Modern Music
Name:	Terry Riley
Birth Year:	1935
Death Year:	na
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Terry Riley Artist Song Name Composer Composition Instrument Terry Riley, (born 1935) American minimalist composer. He has composed in just intonation. Just intonation is a scheme of musical tuning designed to preserve the classical rational harmonic relationships between musical tones. The prominent notes of a given scale are tuned so that the ratios of their frequencies are comprised of relatively small integers. For example, in the key of C major, the ratio of the frequencies of the notes C:G is 2:3, while that of C:F is 3:4. All ratios that involve the prime numbers of 2, 3 and 5 can be built out of the following 3 basic intervals: s=16/15 Semitone t=10/9 Minor Tone T=9/8 Major Tone from which we get 6/5 = Ts 5/4 = Tt 4/3 = Tts 3/2 = TTts 2/1 = TTTttss It gives rise to scale of key C CDEFGABC TtsTtTs with ratios w.r.t. C of D 9/8, E 5/4, F 4/3, G 3/2 A 5/3, B 15/8 and C 2/1 Why isn't just intonation used much? It's because for many instruments, you can't change the key of your scale without retuning your instrument. Also the above scale allows a minor tone to occur next to a semitone. This produces the awkward ratio 32/27 for F/D, so one needs to avoid such a combination of notes. If the value of the major and minor tones are adjusted so that they are both equal, one gets a meantone temperament. If in addition the semitone is altered so that an interval of two semitones is equal to one tone, you get the 12 notes used in modern Western music. Riley's works include: Salome Dances for Peace The Harp of New Albion In C [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Terry Riley.] The Great Books: Terry Riley Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Terry Riley. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Terry Riley. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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