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"Maximum Efficiency" by Tom Johnson captures the essence of 20th-century music with meticulous precision. This thought-provoking piece challenges the listener with its intellectual rigor and innovative structure, making it an essential addition to any classical repertoire. Ideal for those who appreciate the complexity of modern musical evolution. - Note: This music is composed by humans. No human-written product description is available, limiting search visibility. The AI-assisted description is for reference only.

Maximum Efficiency

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Seven-note chords, sometimes tonal. sometimes atonal. are constructed logically with the same six intervals in different orders. The orchestration changes slightly every 12 chords and it takes 20 minutes for the large orchestra to arrive at chord 360. Premiered in the Musica Viva series by the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchester in Munich, July 2008.

360 Chords

Full Orchestra Full Score Parts are Rental Only

Narayana's Cows are the product of a formula devised by a 14th-century Indian mathematician. Music in three voices for an unspecified (but preferably large) ensemble and a narrator.

Narayana's Cows

Trio with Narrator - Score

Performed by Wesley Roberts, organist. Recorded in the Chapel of the Sisters of Loretto in Nerinx, Kentucky, spring 2001. Released in 2003 by ants recordings in Rome, Italy.

Tom Johnson: Organ and Silence (2000)

"An appreciation of the connection between mathematics and music dates back at least to Pythagoras, but rarely does one have a chance to explore that connection in such intimate detail as in these bracing pages. Composer Tom Johnson weaves back and forth between notes and numbers, delighting in patterns that lead up to self-similarity (the basic of fractal geometry). Some familiarity with both sides of the topic is a prerequisite; committed readers will, however, receive a unique aesthetic education" -Scientific American, May 1997. The theory of the logical and mathematical techniques used by the composer: finite and infinite automata, the paper-folding formula, "self-replicating" melodies, etc. A rather detailed discussion, 291 pages, with many new melodies, written to demonstrate the techniques used. Visit ssm.editions75.com for more information and additional material.

Self Similar Melodies (1996)

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The composer writes : In this work I wanted to listen to all the ways that chords of one note, two notes, three notes, four notes, and five notes could be orchestrated using five instruments.

Five Notes for Five Instruments

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Performed by pianist John McAlpine. Released in 2009 by Edition Wandelweiser Records, in Hann, Germany.

Tom Johnson: Counting Keys (1982 1989)

A dialogue between two speakers, A and B, who talk mostly about talking, with regular interludes of harpsichord music. Originally a radio piece, but also possible in concert. 30 minutes.

Talking

Duet 2 Speakers

Baritone sax, guitar, and bass make their way through 20 different musical fragments, for following signals called out by the leader. Usually about 10 minutes.

Recycled Ostinato

Trio Baritone Sax, Guitar & Bass - Score

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The subtle differences between the colors of these two isntruments continue for 16 minutes. Harp and piano.

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Harp Solo with Piano

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For piano. Short pieces based on a computer program. Contents: From Networks; Originals and Copies; Sampson's Solution; Pathways 1 to 33; Slow changes; Quatrains; 11 Times 3; Harmonic Stability; Close Harmonies; Squaring the Chords; Pairs and pairs; Pairs and opposites; Melody; Permutations; Another Permutation; Flip Flop; One at a Time; Tremolo; Rising with Spence; By Ear; Four-Cycle A, B, C; Quasi-Diminished. Unpagintaed score.

Twelve Years Later

Piano Solo

Short sequences of rational harmonies, scored for toy piano, written for Isabel Ettenauer, who has also played other pieces by the composer.

Kleine Chorle fur kleines Klavier

Nine pieces written in 1988 for the 88 keys of the piano.

Music for 88

Nine miniatures in phrases of 12 and 13 notes, following the rhythm of classical French poetry. 10 minutes.

Alexandrins pour Guitare

Guitar Solo

Seven kinds of music derived from seven drawings all based on a (12,3,2) combinatorial design. About 20 minutes. The three B-flat clarinets each read from the score.

Clarinet Trio

One of Johnson's most often performed pieces, written for Jon Deak, and also interpreted by Bertram Turetzky, Gary Karr, and many other virtuosos. A classic among bassists.

Failing, A Very Difficult Piece For Solo String Bass

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A commission from Radio France, for their children's choir. SSAA, without text, 20 minutes.

Le choeur

SSAA Octavo

The window is dirty and it takes 15 minutes to clean it. Tenor, baritone, piano, in English.

Window

Opera Vocal Score

Self-replicating loops turn for 17 minutes in this orchestra piece, premiered at the Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Austria, in September 1999. 2222, 2221, 2 perc. str.

Loops for Orchestra

Twelve piano pieces derived from the block design (12,4,3). Each piece contains 33 four-note chords, all 12 notes occur the same number of times, and the rigor and symmetry are considerably greater than in any serial music. Duration 20 minutes.

Twelve

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