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01. TOM JOHNSON - the 78 two-note chords
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02. TOM JOHNSON - the 286 three-note chords
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03. TOM JOHNSON - the 715 four-note chords
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04. TOM JOHNSON - the 1287 five-note chords
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05. TOM JOHNSON - the 1716 six-note chords
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06. TOM JOHNSON - the 1716 seven-note chords
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07. TOM JOHNSON - the 1287 eight-note chords
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08. TOM JOHNSON - the 715 nine-note chords
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09. TOM JOHNSON - the 286 ten-note chords
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10. TOM JOHNSON - the 78 eleven-note chords
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11. TOM JOHNSON - the 13 twelve-note chords
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12. TOM JOHNSON - the 1 thirteen-note chord
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ARTIST
JOHNSON, TOM
TITLE
The Chord Catalogue
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
XI RECORDS
CATALOG #
XI 123CD
XI 123CD
GENRE
CLASSICAL
RELEASE DATE
4/14/2015
1999 release.
Tom Johnson
composed
The Chord Catalogue
in 1986 and has performed it numerous times around the world since then. This is the first recording. The score consists of a set of verbal instructions and is included in the CD booklet. "Extreme and, one would think, extremely simple. A lesser man would have arranged those 8178 chords in some symphonically meaningful, or else quasi-random order. But Johnson proceeded methodically up the chromatic scale from two notes at a time, three, four, and so on to 13. By the time we reach ten note chords, the information overload was such that the differences were hardly perceptible, a situation reminiscent of serial music. Far from being heavy handed minimalism,
The Chord Catalogue
was a pointed lesson in music history and the relativity of perception" --
Kyle Gann
, The Village Voice. "I have often tried to explain that my music is a reaction against the romantic and expressionistic musical past, and that I am seeking something more objective, something that doesn't express my emotions, something that doesn't try to manipulate the emotions of the listener either, something outside myself. I like to think of
The Chord Catalogue
as a sort of natural phenomenon -- something which has always been present in the ordinary musical scale, and which I simply observed, rather than invented. It is not so much a composition as simply a list." --Tom Johnson
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