Other Minds Festivals ➔ Other Minds Festival: OM 8, Concert 1: 04 “Sonata in Ishartum” by Lou Harrison

Digital Audio

Event Type

Music

Origin

Other Minds

Identifier

OMF.2002.03.07.04

Program Series

Other Minds Festival

Program Length

2 min

Dates

| broadcast
| 2002-03-07 | created

Description

The “Sonata in Inhartum” is transcribed for a work for single harp and is dedicated to Randall Wong. This transcription lowers the pitch by a fifth. The Ishartum mode is the "white key" mode on E, and is the essential flamenco mode. It was first found on a Babylonian cuneiform inscription tuning tablet from the eighteenth century BC. —David Tanenbaum

Genres

20th century classical

Musical Selections

Sonata in Ishartum (1974) (1:52) / Lou Harrison

Performers

David Tanenbaum, classical guitar

Subjects

20th century classical
Guitar music

Related Event

Other Minds Festival 8

Related place

San Francisco (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Other Minds Festival
Harrison, Lou, 1917-2003
Tanenbaum, David