source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:36:39 -0800 Subject: Announcement of radio programme From: Manuel.Op.de.Coul@ezh.nl (Manuel Op de Coul) Zondag 3 november, Conzertzender, 20.00 - 22.00: Ton de Leeuw, retrospectief (1): de vroege werken. 1. Vijf liederen op teksten van Federico Garci'a Lorca (1952) 2. Mouvements re'trogrades (1957) 3. Symphonies of winds (1963) 4. Strijkkwartet nr. 2 (1964) 5. Men go their ways (1964) 6. Spatial music IV (1968) 7. Litany of our time The second string quartet is microtonal. The microtones are used in two different ways: 1. by equally dividing an interval, for instance a minor third in four steps of 75 cents or a major second in three steps of 67 cents. 2. raising or lowering a certain tone by 25/24 or twice that, 150 cents which is the Arabic 3/4 tone. The quartet consists of 12 short parts with an own character. Manuel Op de Coul coul@ezh.nl Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 00:22 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA31521; Fri, 1 Nov 1996 00:23:35 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA30119 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id PAA26612; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:23:31 -0800 Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:23:31 -0800 Message-Id: <73961031232237/0005695065PK3EM@MCIMAIL.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu