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Study 40b for Player Piano - Conlon Nancarrow
One of Nancarrow’s later studies for the player piano. In it, there are two voices at a tempo ratio of e/pi. I usually have a hard time hearing the wild tempo relationships in these studies, and that remains the case here, but this one sounds so amazing.
The most recent issue of Cabinet magazine has an excellent article about Nancarrow that gets at why these works are so important.
