source file: mills3.txt Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 15:46:15 +0100 Subject: Traditional instruments used microtonally From: Daniel Wolf Two German references, perhaps unfamilar abroad, might be useful to composers or players. = The first is Peter Veale's book (with composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf) on= Oboe technique, which includes fingerings for an eighth-tone scale. = The second is Christoph Reiserer's article ''Neue Klangpha''nomene: Griffbestimmte Spieltechniken auf dem Saxophone'' (New Sound Phenomena: Fingering-determined playing techniques on the Saxophone) in the current (Heft 72, November 1997) issue of _MusikTexte_. This article is a summary= of general principles. Several references are made here to the dissertations of Ronald L. Caravan (U. Rochester 1974: _Extensions of Technique for Clarinet and Saxophone_) , and Charlotte Hoppe (U. Hamburg 1989, pub. Frankfurt 1992: _Die instrumentale Revolution: Entwicklung, Anwendung und A''sthetik neuer Spieltechniken fu''r Rohrblattinstrumente_= ), neither of which I had previously encountered. = At present, I am writing a piece for solo trumpet, orchestra, solo rebab and gamelan. I have been pleased to find out how useful alternative fingerings for valved brass can be. While most players can easily lip up = or down a semitone or more, alternative fingering based upon the fifth and seventh partials (that is, starting with the written bb' fingered 123 instead of 100) can be quite useful in orienting the player and articulating passages where the composer wants to create runs ''between t= he cracks''. Until trumpeter Edwin Harkins finishes his long-promised book o= n new trumpet techniques, we can make do with his performance of Erickson's= _Kryl_, which is a fine example of microtonality derived entirely from th= e characteristics of a given instrument, as opposed to a precompositional scheme. SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Mr. Touchless" Subject: Re: Autoharp and Woodwinds PostedDate: 17-11-97 13:44:14 SendTo: CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH ReplyTo: tuning@eartha.mills.edu $MessageStorage: 0 $UpdatedBy: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=coul1358/OU=AT/O=EZH,CN=Manuel op de Coul/OU=AT/O=EZH RouteServers: CN=notesrv2/OU=Server/O=EZH,CN=notesrv1/OU=Server/O=EZH RouteTimes: 17-11-97 16:27:16-17-11-97 16:27:17,17-11-97 16:27:27-17-11-97 16:27:27 DeliveredDate: 17-11-97 16:27:27 Categories: $Revisions: Received: from ns.ezh.nl ([137.174.112.59]) by notesrv2.ezh.nl (Lotus SMTP MTA SMTP v4.6 (462.2 9-3-1997)) with SMTP id C1256552.0054E061; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:27:04 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA00671; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 16:28:26 +0100 Received: from ns.NL.net by ns (smtpxd); id XA00669 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns.NL.net (5.65b/NLnet1.3) id AA16599; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:44:14 +0100 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 13:44:14 +0100 Received: (qmail 17113 invoked from network); 16 Nov 1997 15:16:24 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 16 Nov 1997 15:16:24 -0800 Message-Id: <01bcf2e5$34e09fa0$LocalHost@default> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu