Hi Hans and list, Several answers:
1. I play a lot of new music, and there are many composers writing quarter tones. My first performance of the Ligeti Trio (lots of quarter tones) was at Lincoln Center. I didn't have any preparation for this, and my etude book provides an easy-to-hard sequence for learning quarter tones. 2. If you have the accuracy and the ear to play quarter tones, you'll certainly have the ability to play non-quarter tone music even better. 3. Quarter tones sound VERY cool. 4. Composers' writing of quarter tones for the horn is incredibly haphazard and incomprehensible. In the book, I have proposed what I hope is a rational system of notation of quarter tones. Hope that clarifies. Happy New Year, Dan > > Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:45:18 +0100 > From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] quarter tones > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII > > Hello Dan, all very interesting, but for what use, as most horn players, > amateurs as well as professionals, have enough problems commanding > the F- & the Bb-side fingerings already. And more than that, even many > professional players have problems transposing a simple musical text > if there are some accidentals. How should they master the problem of > quarter tones ? How will be the relation between effort to master the > quarter tone issue and resulting income ? > > There is one good thing with quarter-tone-textes: > > there is no transposing involved. > > ########################################################## > Am 27.12.2010 um 15:18 schrieb Daniel Grabois: > >> I'm very excited to announce that I have just published my second etude >> book. It is called Quarter Tone Manual for French Horn. It has 17 etudes >> ranging from fairly easy to extremely hard, plus lots of explanations on how >> to play quarter tones. There's also a section of suggestions for composers >> on how to write quarter tones in a way that makes them playable by horn >> players. >> >> So, apologies for the commercial plug, but you can order the book at my >> website, www.danielgrabois.com. >> >> Thanks, and Happy New Year to all horn players and their families! >> Dan Grabois >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: [email protected] >> unsubscribe or set options at >> https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/hpizka%40me.com > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/horn > > End of Horn Digest, Vol 96, Issue 23 > ************************************ Daniel Grabois Chairman of Contemporary Performance Manhattan School of Music Horn: Meridian Arts Ensemble Professor of Horn, The Hartt School (917) 763-3364 www.danielgrabois.com [email protected] _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
