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Re: Composing

From:Garth Wallace <gwalla@...>
Date:Saturday, March 15, 2003, 17:26
Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> --- Sally Caves skrzypszy: > >>Miller's music has the added strangeness of quarter tones. > > > I have been playing with quarter tones, too, but finally I came to the > conclusion that they don't really fit in my music, although I still use them, > very incidentally. > I love to perform quarter tone music, though (notably choral works by Iannis > Xenakis). Some great music has also been written by Alois Hába, Ivan > Vyshnegradsky, and Charles Ives. There was also a renaissance composer who > experimented with quarter tones, but I can't remember his name offhand.
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