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Ben Johnston
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American composer (1926–2019)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Swallow the Worm
- Legacy of Love
- Men of Steel
- Maximum Clarity and Other Writings on Music
- New Light
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1926
- Active to
- 2019
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8,040
- Total plays
- 78,058
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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 No
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using
<b>lme4</b>
· 2015 · cited 73,113x
- Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2
· 2012 · cited 52,741x
- HISAT: a fast spliced aligner with low memory requirements
· 2015 · cited 21,472x
- Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome
· 2009 · cited 19,773x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,368x
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- date of birth
- 1926-03-15
- date of death
- 2019-07-21
- name in native language
- Ben Johnston
- birth name
- Benjamin Burwell Johnston Jr.
- Commons category
- Ben Johnston (composer)
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