RE: microtonality in popular music (soundtracks)

> From: alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves)
> Subject: Re: Subject: microtonality in popular music
>
Wendy Carlos wrote a score for The Shining, of
> which only two pieces survived, including the terrifying quotation of the
> Dies Irae which opens the film. Does anyone know if her pieces used
> alternate tunings, or if the rejected pieces ever saw the light of day in
> another form?
>
I doubt any of Carlos' score for The Shining was microtonal. It was filmed
in 1978. She didn't start exploring those areas until the GDS/Synergy
digital synthesizer made defineable intervals possible, around 1980.

John Loffink
john.loffink@compaq.com