miscellaneous pedagogical material
polansky
5/6/17
(diagrams, notes,  materials of pieces and ideas (my own, others), charts, ephemera, teaching examples)

pieces

• Psaltery diagram  (1978)
• redrawing by Giacomo Fiore, 11/12
  

• 3 pieces for 2 pianos
• II: measure length stretches
• III: parameter charts

• shape note music for "Dismission" (from the Missouri Harmony)
• notes and diagrams for Four Voice Canon #23a (freeHorn canon) for Charles Dodge
• one page top level code for Four Voice Canon #3
• random number generator for Four Voice Canon #2 (Interdata Model 3 machine code/mnemonics)
• questions and answers about for jim, ben and lou, from Dan Lippel, about the guitar part
• tuning chart, in monochord lengths, for the transfer harp, for Will You Miss Me (solo version) (17-note scale in one octave)
  

pedagogical material

• two diagrams from my orchestration book (New Instrumentation and Orchestration: An Outline for Study, 1986 by Frog Peak Music): simple tunings chart, string instrument harmonic nodes
• early diagrams (around 1982)  for the design of HMSL, the CCM Hybrid Studio, and some of David Rosenboom's related work (by me and David)
• statistical feedback demo, histograms of uniformly distributed random numbers (early 1990s, class handouts)
• James Tenney, 3 Indigeneous Songs (materials from Rob Wannamaker)
• teaching guide (scan) of the "workbook" for web-based Music and Computers text (authors: LP, Douglas Repetto, Phil Burk, Dan Rockmore, Mary Roberts)
• 14 Impossible Melodies Picture
• morph orders picture
• explanation of Anna's Music Box "memory" algorithm ("repeat")
  
• Christian Wolff guitar pieces, pedagogical "transcriptions"
  
• last two pages of Another Possibility for Electric Guitar
• last section of Going West (solo guitar)
• "ugly" chart of all music theory
• handwritten version (from dim memory) of John Bergamo's (his?) Coming Together (title,?), used often with ensembles, classes, etc
• metrics in R²
• example of incomplete tuplets, written out conventionally, for talking about first of 3 Pieces for 2 Pianos. 
• contour test: 13 possible contours written as melodies (to be played)
• nice graph of the Euler GS function (made by Mike Winter)
• nice graphs of different harmonic distance functions (made by Ko Umezaki for a grad. seminar of mine at Dartmouth in the early 1990s)
  

frog peak collaborations cd materials

• invitation
• alt version
• text of the original chris mann piece
• carter scholz score "An Economy of Virtual Knowns"
  
• recording of the Scholz piece, solo clarinet, by Sam Torrisi
• other pieces  from the CD
  
• original soundfile (chris mann, recorded by LP, Melbourne, Australia)
  

folk songs (used as sources in pieces)

• eskimo lullaby (original) (used in Songs and Toods, for the Lou Harrison Just Intonation guitar)
  
• lonesome road (original) (the source for Lonesome Road (The Crawford Variations), for solo piano)
  

miscellany

• torah tropes (hand written transcription of the Shabbat morning tropes)
• Seminar in Formal Methods 1986 typescript