just intonation - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

After reading Hermann von Helmholtz’s Sensations of Tone, Harry Partch burned all his previous work to devote himself to systems of this type. For 10 points each:

[10h] Give the exact term used to describe the compositional system of Ben Johnston. Partch introduced the analysis of systems of this type via odd numbers of “limits.”

ANSWER: just intonation [or pure intonation; prompt on microtonal or xenharmonic or descriptions of using whole-number ratio intervals or unusual tuning or intonation; prompt on JI]

[10m] This composer of A Rainbow in Curved Air recorded the albums Shri Camel and The Harp of New Albion in just intonation. Performers repeat 53 short fragments in a piece by this composer simply titled for its key.

ANSWER: Terry Riley

[10e] Terry Riley’s fragmented piece for an indefinite number of musicians is titled for being In [this key]. This fundamental major key of Johnston’s notation contains no sharps or flats.

ANSWER: C major [accept In C]

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California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
Pacific Northwest	2025-02-01	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	8	13.75	100%	38%	0%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


Wisconsin A	Iowa State	0	0	10	10
Purdue	Georgetown A	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
Florida B	Florida A	0	0	10	10
Michigan C	Kenyon	10	10	10	30
Case Western A	Michigan D	0	0	10	10
Michigan State	Case Western B	0	0	10	10
Carnegie Mellon B	Ohio State A	0	0	10	10
Ohio State B	Carnegie Mellon A	0	0	10	10
Alberta	UW B	0	0	10	10
UBC	UW A	0	10	10	20
TAMU	Texas A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Bruin A	0	10	10	20
Bristol	Warwick B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge D	Sheffield	0	0	10	10
Cambridge E	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Durham	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Cambridge C	0	10	10	20
Southampton A	Imperial B	0	0	10	10
Manchester	NYU C	0	0	10	10
Haverford A	George Washington A	0	0	10	10
Penn B	John Jay College	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Haverford B	0	0	10	10
Penn A	Columbia B	0	0	10	10
Rutgers A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
Claremont B	UCSD	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	UCLA	0	10	10	20
UCF C	Florida State A	0	10	10	20
UCF B	Valencia A	0	0	10	10
Michigan A	Michigan B	0	10	10	20
Minnesota B	Carleton	0	10	10	20
Winona State	Wisconsin B	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Georgetown B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame C	Iowa	0	0	10	10
Stanford B	Northwestern A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Louisville A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge A	Warwick A	0	10	10	20
Cambridge B	LSE	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Cornell B	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	NYU A	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Cornell D	Binghamton A	0	0	10	10
Cornell C	RIT B	0	0	10	10
RIT A	ESF A	0	0	10	10