source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:49:55 +0100 Subject: Favourite recordings From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" Carl listed some favourite albums with intentional tunings_ Just wanted to contribute some of mine - Luigi Nono, Prometeo - Tragedia dell'ascolto, (Ingo Metzmacher et al., EMI 7243 5 55209 2 0 ) (2 CDs) (To me, one of the greatest works of the 20th Century). Luigi Nono, A Carlo Scarpa architetto; No hay camonos, hay que caminar; (Micheal Gielen, Sinfonieorchester des Sudwestfunks, Astree E8741) (CD) Giacinto Scelsi, (1905-88) Anahit (Carmen Fournier Violin, Jurg Wyttenbach Cond., Orchestre de la Radio-Television Polonaise de Cracovie. Accord 200612) (CD) Bill Hopkins, (1943-81) (Alison Wells soprano, Richard Bernas cond., Music Projects/London, NMC D014) (CD) (Hopkins was pupil of Jean Barraque, and he was my own composition teacher). (Not all microtonal). Harry Partch, Study on Archytas' Enharmonic (John Schneider Guitar, Amy Shulman Harp, Bridge BCD 9041) (CD). (I'm not a huge Partch fan, and I suspect this is not an `authentic' performance - but I love this rendition.) Lastly, I wouldn't call this a favourite - but I add it as a curiosity : Pierre Barbaud, French Gagaku, (Orchestre Radio Television de Strasbourg, cond_?) (LP)) (Sorry, haven't got any more details on this - I only have a tape of it. But I know the LP exists. Does anyone on the list know much about Barbaud's music? This is the only thing I've heard. I think he was an early-microtonal-computer- algorithm-composer_) The tunings of all these (except Partch and Hopkins) are 1/4 tone (I think Prometeo is notated in smaller divisions also, but the score is not available to purchase). The Hopkins is notated with arrow-heads attached to conventional accidentals. They are described as 'quarter-tones' but it is fairly clear he didn't mean strict 24-ET. In the solo violin piece on the disk (which is 'post-serial') the tunings aspire to a kind of bird song. Patrick Ozzard-Low SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" Subject: Missing Digests PostedDate: 06-01-98 15:00:36 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: 06-01-98 15:00:08-06-01-98 15:00:08,06-01-98 15:00:04-06-01-98 15:00:04 DeliveredDate: 06-01-98 15:00:04 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 C1256584.004CEA1A; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:00:06 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03670; Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:00:36 +0100 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 15:00:36 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03776 Received: (qmail 1003 invoked from network); 6 Jan 1998 06:00:21 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Jan 1998 06:00:21 -0800 Message-Id: <199801061352.NAA12012@imail.norfolk.gov.uk> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu