[Finale] Quarter-tone music
timothy price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Dennis, Was wondering if you had a site where I could stream or download (listen to) anything using quarter-tones? Have never heard any music, to my knowledge, composed as such. What is the basic tonality? I mean, does it mater, whether it is just, tempered, etc. tuning? Any info would be appreciated. Any lack of sufficient anxiety now that the dam is gone? ;-) We all need motivation, you know. Best, tim PS. any other type of music which you have taken a liking to? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Quarter-tone music
Listen to the compositions (especially the string quartets) of Alois Haba. There is one in 1/3 tones, which I found to be extremely interesting (and surprisingly mellow sounding). Dr.A.S.Weinstangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW! cel.647-292-4605 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:59:47 -0400 Subject: [Finale] Quarter-tone music timothy price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Dennis, Was wondering if you had a site where I could stream or download (listen to) anything using quarter-tones? Have never heard any music, to my knowledge, composed as such. What is the basic tonality? I mean, does it mater, whether it is just, tempered, etc. tuning? Any info would be appreciated. Any lack of sufficient anxiety now that the dam is gone? ;-) We all need motivation, you know. Best, tim PS. any other type of music which you have taken a liking to? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone music
Charles Ives: 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces - I. Largo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJPnUZhETg There's more on that page-- Bob Morabito On Oct 18, 2008, at 11:59 AM, timothy price wrote: timothy price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Dennis, Was wondering if you had a site where I could stream or download (listen to) anything using quarter-tones? Have never heard any music, to my knowledge, composed as such. What is the basic tonality? I mean, does it mater, whether it is just, tempered, etc. tuning? Any info would be appreciated. Any lack of sufficient anxiety now that the dam is gone? ;-) We all need motivation, you know. Best, tim PS. any other type of music which you have taken a liking to? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] Quarter-tone music
On Oct 18, 2008, at 11:59 AM, timothy price wrote: Was wondering if you had a site where I could stream or download (listen to) anything using quarter-tones? Have never heard any music, to my knowledge, composed as such. What is the basic tonality? I mean, does it mater, whether it is just, tempered, etc. tuning? Any info would be appreciated. The tonality is a matter of the composer's philosophy. Most of Haba's music is atonal. The just-intonation crew (Partch and his followers, such as Johnston) usually fall on the tonal side, but though they use many microtones, these are derived from the harmonic series and do not, strictly speaking, include quarter-tones. Some well-known, commercially recorded quarter-tone works Include Ives' Fourth Symphony, his Two Quartertone Piano Pieces, and Copland's Vitebsk. Me, I use equal-tempered quartertones in all kinds of ways, including quarter-tone key signatures that shift all notes up or down a quarter step until the signature is cancelled. In such passages, it is the normal notes that sound out of tune! If you're curious to hear this, check out the audio excerpt of my *Chamber Symphony* sax quartet at http://www.kallistimusic.com/APSblurbs.html A few other audio clips on this same page also use quartertones, but this one is the most dramatic and obvious in that way. Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://www.kallistimusic.com/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
RE: [Finale] Quarter-tone music
His (Haba's) opera Mother is also very good. If you can get ahold of Ives' quarter-tone piano pieces I'd say give them a go. Unfortunately I don't have a workable recording of mhy own trombone sonata. ajr Listen to the compositions (especially the string quartets) of Alois Haba. There is one in 1/3 tones, which I found to be extremely interesting (and surprisingly mellow sounding). Dr.A.S.Weinstangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW! cel.647-292-4605 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: finale@shsu.edu Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:59:47 -0400 Subject: [Finale] Quarter-tone music timothy price [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Dennis, Was wondering if you had a site where I could stream or download (listen to) anything using quarter-tones? Have never heard any music, to my knowledge, composed as such. What is the basic tonality? I mean, does it mater, whether it is just, tempered, etc. tuning? Any info would be appreciated. Any lack of sufficient anxiety now that the dam is gone? ;-) We all need motivation, you know. Best, tim PS. any other type of music which you have taken a liking to? ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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Cool piece, Andrew! **Leigh On Sat, Oct 18, 2008, Andrew Stiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.kallistimusic.com/APSblurbs.html ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
