- Instrumentation:
- archiphone (or scalatron)
The contemporary American composer Joel Mandelbaum exploits
in his Four miniatures the very special possibilities
that are inherent to the keyboard of the archiphone (an
electronic 31-tone keyboard instrument). On the Fifth
Rank explores the intervals and chords of tones on the
fifth rank of keys on the keyboard, Triangulation
triangular patterns of keys. Aural Illusion and
The Beat Generation March explore further
peculiarities of the archiphone, the former one with single
diesis steps in a melodic context, the latter a drone with
two simultaneous notes a diesis apart.
- 1984
- ISBN n/a (paper)
- 1 score (16 pp.)
- 21 x 30 cm
- €12 or US$12