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Meantop and Alaska 4

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

1/13/2004 1:44:38 PM

I have a TOP meantone page up which so far contains only the complete
four movements of the infamous string quarter. Those whose interest
lies mostly in tuning experiments rather than music may favor the
third movement. I'd forgotten this was rendered in all strings until
I put it up. The second violin is taken by a fiddle font, but in most
actual string quartets the two violins play separate instruments
rather than trying to share one.

http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/meantop.htm

I also have a version in Alaska 4 of Hindemith/Wagner, "Overture to
the 'Flying Dutchman' as played at sight by a second-rate Concert
Orchestra at the Village Well at 7 o'clock in the morning". Anyone
who objects to transcription should steer clear. Hindemith first
transcribes Wagner for string quartet, an obvious amateur blunder I
then attempt to correct.

http://66.98.148.43/~xenharmo/alaska.htm