source file: mills3.txt Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 12:32:44 +0100 Subject: John Foulds From: Manuel Op de Coul Some may have noticed his name in the microtonal discography but it was never mentioned on this list. Therefore I'll draw attention so that members will recognize the name when they encounter it again: John Herbert Foulds. This rather remarkable composer was born in Manchester in 1880 and died of cholera in Calcutta in 1939. His works have been much forgotten. I read his name somewhere in the New Grove and have one record (Quartetto Intimo, Quartetto Geniale, Aquarelles). This information is from the booklet. He wrote a wide range of music: 10 string quartets, a cello concerto and sonata, symphonic poems, a concert opera, music for piano and orchestra, 9 suites, theatre music, a gigantic World Requiem with 1200 singers and instrumentalists, and so on. He also published a book, "Music To-day". John Foulds was the first British composer to use quarter-tones, as early as the 1890s. He had a deep fascination with oriental music, especially from India. This led him to compose with ancient Greek modes, nondiatonic scales and Hindu ragas, as in "Ghandarva-Music" (1915-1926) for piano. Later he also wrote for ensembles of Indian instruments and combination of Indian instruments with a western symphony orchestra. Perhaps for us the most interesting is the "Lyra Celtica" concerto for wordless voice and orchestra (1920?), which features a microtonal tuning of 22 tones to the octave (which anyone? srutis maybe). There's no recording. Several of his works still await their first performance. He wrote works in more traditional genres as well, which show diverse influences as of Busoni, Scriabin and Bartok. In 1935 he travelled to India, where he collected Indian folk-music, became director of European Music for all-India Radio at Delhi, created an orchestra from scratch, and began to work towards a musical synthesis of the cultures of East and West. The record above mentioned was made with assistance of the British Music Society. Their website does not provide any information about Foulds, except that there's an article in vol. 10 of the annual journal British Music. There is a short home page: http://shift.merriweb.com.au/foulds/ I have by the way added a few records to the microtonal discography ftp://ella.mills.edu/ccm/tuning/papers/discs.html Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl SMTPOriginator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu From: "Loffink, John" Subject: RE: Defining pitch bend resolution PostedDate: 03-02-98 22:21:06 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: 03-02-98 22:20:10-03-02-98 22:20:11,03-02-98 22:18:46-03-02-98 22:18:46 DeliveredDate: 03-02-98 22:18:47 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 C12565A0.007530E2; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:20:02 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06957; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:21:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 22:21:06 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06952 Received: (qmail 19195 invoked from network); 3 Feb 1998 13:20:11 -0800 Received: from localhost (HELO ella.mills.edu) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 1998 13:20:11 -0800 Message-Id: <01BD30B6.CD977C00@exchou-conn01.im.hou.compaq.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu