David B. Doty, Just Intonation Composer, Theorist, & Musician

The pages linked below contain material from my thirty-five year of composing, performing, and recording music in just intonation. My articles about just intonation theory and The Just Intonation Primer will be found in the “Words” section.

• Other Music (1975–c.1986). The experimental music ensemble I cofounded, performed with, built instruments and composed extensively for. Other Music was best know for its American gamelan, tuned in a 14-tone-per octave just intonation scale.
• Uncommon Practice (1984–1995). A CD of my compositions for MIDI instruments in Just Intonation.
• I cofounded The Just Intonation Network in 1984 and served as the editor of its journal, 1/1, from its inception to 2006. The network is inactive as a membership organization, but there's lots of useful information on JI on the site.
• Just Intonation and Microtonal Music Links ported from the JIN website and updated.
• Gamelan Encantada, the Albuquerque NM–based Javanese and American gamelan that Marina and I recently joined.
• Free Music Downloads
• Recent Projects and Works in Progress.
• A Chord Atlas for the National Reso-phonic Just Intonation Guitar (PDF). This just intonation steel guitar was orginally designed for Lou Harrison's Scenes from Nek Chand and subsequently composed for by many other composers, myself included.
• Scores of some of my pieces are available from Frog Peak Music.
• My Wikipedia article. Perhaps some qualified person would like to edit and expand it.
• Composer Bio and Resume.

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