source file: m1378.txt Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 12:32:18 -0400 Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1377: microtonal music in films From: monz@juno.com (Joseph L Monzo) on Mon, 6 Apr 1998 17:06:33, Bill Alves wrote: >The pieces by Gyorgy Ligeti in 2001 include Lux Aeterna > Atmospheres and the Requiem . Though Ligeti > has been known to use non-12tet notes, as far as I >remember (I don't have the scores handy), these pieces used 12tet >pitches, mostly in clusters. They are classics of the 1960s > school of textural or sound-mass composition. > >Penderecki has on occassion asked for quarter-tone clusters or >microtonal melodic inflections in his works of the same period. > Kubrick used some of Penderecki's pieces (as well as Ligeti's > Lontano, if memory serves) in The Shining, though I don't > recall if they were pieces that included microtones. I think you're right that Kubrick used "Lontano" (I'm not positive, though), and I have have the score -- it's very dense, but I haven't seen any microtones in it; looks like it's all 12-eq clusters. I'm pretty sure, however, that some of the Penderecki pieces in "The Shining" *do* have microtones. Joseph L. Monzo monz@juno.com 4940 Rubicam St., Philadelphia, PA 19144-1809, USA phone 215 849 6723 _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]