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Mallets in the Air is a just-intonation piece featuring the Harry Partch-designed diamond marimba with string quartet. It is Tenney’s arrangement of the second movement of his earlier work Song ‘n’ Dance for Harry Partch (1999), a piece for adapted viola, diamond marimba, strings, and percussion.
The diamond marimba is a manifestation of Partch’s tonality diamond, with the droning G acting as, in turn, the root, third, fifth, seventh, ninth, or eleventh harmonic of each just intonation “hexad.”
“Mallets in the air” is a phrase drawn from Partch’s admonition to any future player of the diamond marimba: “Do not wave the mallets in the air, daintily or otherwise.”
Tenney wrote about Song ‘n’ Dance for Harry Partch, “Perhaps in this work I can finally repay my considerable debt to Harry Partch, without incurring his wrath. As his student/assistant, for several months in 1959, our relationship was somewhat problematic—mainly, I believe, because I was unwilling to become the devoted disciple that he needed—and surely deserved (if anyone deserves such a thing). But now, many years later, I have to admit that I learned everything I know about just/microtonal tuning theory from Partch and/or his book, Genesis of a Music.”
credits
from Cold Blue Two (an original anthology),
released November 13, 2012
Erin Barnes, Partch diamond marimba (in just intonation)
Formalist Quartet: Andrew McIntosh and Andrew Tholl, violins; Mark Menzies, viola; Ashley Walters, cello
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