Ben Johnston
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About Ben Johnston
Ben Johnston (Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Jr., Macon, Georgia, USA, March 15, 1926 – July 21, 2019) was an American contemporary music composer using "just intonation" (system of tuning). He was called "one of the foremost composers of microtonal music" by Philip Bush (1997) and "one of the best non-famous composers this country has to offer" by John Rockwell (1990). Johnston taught composition and theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1951 to 1986, before retiring to North Carolina.
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String Quartet No. 7: Scurrying, Forceful, Intense
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String Quartet No. 7: With Solemnity
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String Quartet No. 7: Eerie
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String Quartet No. 8: Lazy, Rocking
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String Quartet No. 8: Vigorous, Aggressive
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Crossings: The Ascent, String Quartet No. 4, Amazing Grace
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String Quartet No. 8: Extremely Light and Rhythmic
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String Quartet No. 8: Fast, Skimming - Light
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String Quartet No. 6: Legato Espressivo
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Quietness
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String Quartet No. 9: Strong, calm, slow
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String Quartet No. 9: Slow, Expressive
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String Quartet No. 10: Brisk, intent - 1995
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String Quartet No. 9: Fast, Elated
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String Quartet No. 9: Vigorous And Defiant
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String Quartet No. 2 - Intimate, spacious
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String Quartet No. 10: Solemn - 1995
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String Quartet No. 5 - 1979
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String Quartet No. 10: Sprightly, not too fast - 1995
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String Quartet No. 2 : Light And Quick: With Grace And Humor
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Crossings: Verging, String Quartet No. 3
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 1. Clear and concentrated - 1959
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Crossings: The Silence
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String Quartet No. 10: Deliberate but as fast as possible - 1995
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 2. Sharp - 1959
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String Quartet No. 2 - Extremely minute and intense; not fast
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 4. Impetuous - 1959
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 3. Still, spacious - 1959
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 5. Fluid, pulsating - 1959
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 6. Assertive - 1959
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 8. Nervous, driving - 1959
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 7. Rather ominous - 1959
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String Quartet No. 1, "Nine Variations": Variation 9. Minute, atmospheric - 1959
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Eleven Instrusions II: Study on Archytas' Enharmonic
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String Quartet No. 9: III. Slow, Expressive
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Sonata For Microtonal Piano: Movement I
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The Tavern: Prelude
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Septet: Movement 1
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Sonata for Microtonal Piano: Movement IV
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String Quartet No. 6
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String Quartet 7
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Eleven Instrusions IV: The Crane
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Casta Bertram
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String Quartet No. 4 "Amazing Grace" (After J. Newton)
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String Quartet No. 5
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Sonnets of Desolation
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The Tavern: Who Says Words With My Mouth
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Septet: Movement 2
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Septet: Movement 3
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Sonata for Microtonal Piano: Movement II
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