source file: m1483.txt Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:13:08 +0000 Subject: xen wind instruments From: "Patrick Ozzard-Low" Drew Skyfyre wrote: > >From what I understand, many players achieve different tunings > by using various fingerings. From this list, I know this has been > done on flute and bassoon. To which other wind instruments has this > approach been applied ? And, what types of tunings are possible ? > Is there a good source of info out there for someone wanting > to write parts for these instruments ? Though ultimately it would > require personally working with the people who are to actually > perform the parts, to fine tune the writing to match their actual > physical abilities. Sorry not to have time for more detailed help right now. Here are some sources: Pitch: for the International Microtonalist, Vol. 1, No. 4, Spring 1990. Microtonality Manual, co-produced by the Centre for Microtonal Music and the SPNM (Society for the Promotion of New Music, London), July 1991 Robert Dick, The Other Flute - A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques, Multiple Breath Music Company, 1989; Thomas Howell, The Avant-Garde Flute: A Handbook for Composers and Flutists, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1974; Peter Veale, et al., The Techniques of Oboe Playing: A Compendium with Additional Remarks on the Oboe d'Amore and the Cor Anglais, B=E4renreiter, 1995; Philip Rehfeldt, New Directions for the Clarinet, University of California Press, 1994; Gerald James Farmer, Multiphonics and other Contemporary Clarinet Techniques, Rochester, New York, Shall-u-mo Publications, 1982. The issue of Pitch - gives an extensive list of special fingerings for orchestral woodwinds (also the recorder and horn) covering a number of alternative tunings - including just intonations, quarter-tones, and even 31-ET and 72-ET for some instruments. Johnny Reinhard will surely tell you more. The orger references are not just about alternative tunings. Where they are, there is an emphasis on quarter-tones in each of these manuals except Pitch. Rehfeldt also deals with eighth-tones. Also see my refercne to the new manualk for 1/4 tones for recorder posted here not long back. Patrick O-L