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 [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
