source file: m1552.txt Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Research about CARL EITZ (Digest 1538 Topic 4) From: Mark Nowitzky Hi Nadja (and Hi Bill), (I know, I'm running way behind in my email reading.) At 08:10 AM 9/29/98 -0400, you wrote (via Bill Alves in TUNING Digest 1538 Topic 4): >>From: Nadja Schnetzler >>Subject: Research about CARL EITZ >> >>Hi! >> >>My Name is Nadja Schneztler and on behalf of the swiss music teacher >>association I am looking for information about the following musican. >> >>unfortunaltely, most of his work was lost during world war II, but there >>are still a few people who know the name and the music system he >>invented: >> >>Carl EITZ 1848 to 1924 in W=3DFCrzbur, Germany inventer of an intonation >>system he called "Tonwort". >> >>do you know anything about the system or the inventer? I'll gladly send >>some really great swiss chocolate if you find out something... thanks! >> >>>Nadja Schnetzler, Ideenpflege, >>>Gesch=3DE4ftsleitungnadja.schnetzler@brainstore.com______________________= ___ >>>________________BrainStore AGVerkauf und Pflege von IdeenR=3DFCschlistras= se >>>31, Postfach 871CH-2501 Biel >>>Fon +41 32 323 43 43Fax +41 32 323 43 45www.brainstore.com >>> I found this, at http://www.rism.harvard.edu/MusicLibrary/newbooks/September97_bks.html (New Books at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library -- September 1997): Eitz, Carl, 1848-1924. Das Tonwort : Bausteine zur musikalischen Volksbildung. Leipzig : Breitkopf & Hartel, 1928. -- [HOLLIS# AIP5489]=20 Loeb Music: Mus 295.22.100=20 So then I searched at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/resdev/ess/ (The Library of Congress Experimental Search System): =3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dbegin search results=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Items 1 through 8 of 8 Items containing the words carl eitz next to each other in order. 1 Der lautensch=FCler; eine anweisung im melodiespiel auf der laute oder gitarre;=20 1927 unter ber=FCcksichtigung des tonalen lehrganges von Carl Eitz nach praktischen unterrichtsgrunds=E4tzen und -erfahrungen zusammengestellt [German]= [MT640 T2 ]=20 Items containing the words carl eitz near each other. 2 Der Gesangunterricht als Grundlage der musikalishcen Bildung.=20 Eitz, Carl. [German] [MT935 .E35 ]=20 3 Taschenbuch der Erzieher f=FCr Musik.=20 1951 Stolte, Wilhelm. [German] [MT935 .S836 ]=20 4 Das mathematisch-reine tonsystem.=20 1891 Eitz, Carl Andreas,1848- [German] [ML3815 .E4 ]=20 5 Der gesangunterricht als grundlage der musikalischen bildung,=20 1914 Eitz, Carl Andreas,1848- [German] [LB17 .P3 bd. 2 ]=20 6 Das tonwort;=20 1928 Eitz, Carl Andreas,1848-1924. [German] [MT935 .E34 1928 ]=20 7 The tone-word system and its relation to the three kinds of tuning existing in music, viz. the pure quint tuning, the tempered one and the naturally pure one.=20 1905 Eitz, Carl Andreas,1848-1924. [MT925 .E32 ]=20 8 Bausteine zum schulgesangunterrichte im sinne der tonwortmethode,=20 1911 Eitz, Carl Andreas,1848- [German] [MT935 .E34 1911 ]=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3Dend search results=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D So now I want to go try to find the 7th book at a local bookstore (since I don't speak German). I hope the above info helps! --Mark P.S.: If you send any swiss chocolate, send the nutrition label with it, showing "total grams carbohydrate", so I can figure out how much insulin to take with it... +------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark Nowitzky | | email: nowitzky@alum.mit.edu AIM: Nowitzky | | www: http://www.pacificnet.net/~nowitzky | | "If you haven't visited Mark Nowitzky's home | | page recently, you haven't missed much..." | +------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ End of TUNING Digest 1552 *************************