source file: m1378.txt Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 10:32:46 -0500 Subject: RE: microtonality in popular music (soundtracks) From: "Loffink, John" > From: alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves) > Subject: Re: Subject: microtonality in popular music > Wendy Carlos wrote a score for The Shining, of > which only two pieces survived, including the terrifying quotation of the > Dies Irae which opens the film. Does anyone know if her pieces used > alternate tunings, or if the rejected pieces ever saw the light of day in > another form? > I doubt any of Carlos' score for The Shining was microtonal. It was filmed in 1978. She didn't start exploring those areas until the GDS/Synergy digital synthesizer made defineable intervals possible, around 1980. John Loffink john.loffink@compaq.com