Joel Mandelbaum

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Mayer Joel Mandelbaum (born October 12, 1932) is an American

microtonal tuning (notably just intonation and 19 equal temperament and the 31 equal temperament). He wrote the first Ph.D. dissertation on microtonality in 1961. He is married to stained glass artist Ellen Mandelbaum, and is the nephew of Abraham Edel
.

Career

Born in New York City,

Berlin Hochschule für Musik. His composition teachers included Boris Blacher, Luigi Dallapiccola, Irving Fine, Walter Piston, and Harold Shapero.[1] His thesis was focused on the 19 equal temperament.[2] He was a teacher and chairman of the music department at Queens College, City University of New York
, from 1961 to 1999.

Mandelbaum became interested in

microtonality after listening to a lecture by Paul Hindemith in which Hindemith inadequately debunked various alternative forms of tuning.[3] He began a correspondence with Adriaan Fokker which led to a six-week stay in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1963, during which he composed music using Euler's genera
under Fokker's tutelage. The result was 10 Studies in 31-Tone Temperament, which premiered on the Fokker organ in Haarlem.

Mandelbaum's motivation to use the

woodwinds) in tunings other than those that they were designed for.[4]

Mandelbaum's music has been recorded on Capstone and Ravello Records (Parma Recordings).

References

  1. ^ a b Randel, Don. Harvard Dictionary of Music. p. 546.
  2. ^ J. Mandelbaum, Multiple division of the octave and the tonal resources of the 19-tone equal temperament, PhD thesis, Indiana University, (1961)
  3. ^ "Stichting Huygens-Fokker: Joel Mandelbaum". Archived from the original on 2007-11-04. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
  4. JSTOR 833076
    .

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