source file: mills2.txt Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:58:19 -0800 Subject: Hans Fredrik Berg From: John Chalmers Saturday AM, I did a WEB search with AltaVista on Kathleen Schlesinger and a few other well-known names in xenharmonics. Only three sites were found for KS, one of which is quite intriguing, http://www.alphaomega.se/svenska/lyran.html. This page (in Swedish, Paul Rapoport helped me read it.) is devoted to the Norwegian-born composer Hans Fredrik Berg. Berg composes music in Schlesinger's harmoniai, apparently for an orchestra consisting mostly of home-built lyres of various types. Unfortunately, I couldn't find an email or postal address for more information on him or his music, much of which has been created in collaboration with Karin Mo"ller. Berg appears to be somewhat of a mystic and is associated with the Anthroposophy movement of Rudolf Steiner, best known in the States, at least, for their private Waldorf Schools. If anyone knows anything further about Berg and his music, please post it to the Tuning List. While Schlesinger's harmoniai may not really have much to do with ancient Greek music, they are fascinating in their own right. The diatonic forms are essentially Utonality (subharmonic) heptads through prime number 13 (including 9), though the hypo modes tend to substitute 15 for 14 (7). The harmoniai are distinguished primarily by the choice of tonic and are modes of each other. --John Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:09 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02465; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 09:12:53 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02463 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id AAA07879; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:12:42 -0800 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 00:12:42 -0800 Message-Id: <199701060312_MC2-E48-44F5@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu