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

The pages linked below contain material from my 50 years 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.

• New Album (January 2025) The First Fifty Years
  • Review by Kraig Grady in Xenharmonikon
  • Marina La Palma Interviews David Doty About The First Fifty Years and His Career as a Composer
• 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.
  • Other Music's American Gamelan is now in Phoenix AZ, is being used for performances at Glendal Community College.
  • Complete Sheet Music Videos from 1976
  • Videos by the Glendale Community College Precussion Ensemble: American Gamelan pieces and Sheet Music
  • Minimalist Pieces from the Mid-1970s
• Uncommon Practice (1984–1995). A CD of my compositions for MIDI instruments in Just Intonation.
• Just Intonation and Microtonal Music Links ported from the JIN website and updated.
• Recent Projects and Works in Progress.
  • Variations on a Ground for String Quartet (2006)
  • Steel Suite, Guitar Version—Now on CD!
  • Steel Suite, Keyboard Version
• 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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