Re : Re: TD 381: Reply to "the Monz" on fifthtones

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(Joe Monzo:)

> Thanks to Daniel Wolf for confirming that Haba's 16th Quartet
> is, as I thought, in 31-tET, and to Margo Schulter for her
> historical speculations.
>
> I believe this is the only piece Haba wrote in 31-tET, and
> also believe it was due to his interaction with Fokker (in
> the 1960s?), and not to any specific interest in the historical
> theorists mentioned by Margo (excepting Huyghens, on whose
> work Fokker's was based).

I heard the piece very well performed recently in Prague. The two violinists
from the Stamic Quartet, who played it, told me they weren't so much
*calculating* their intonation by cents or by ratios. "We rather trust our
ears", they said, "somewhere in between we always find the pitch that
fits." I really liked their performance. In fact they have recorded or are
recording all Haba quartets. For information, mail to Vitezslav Cernoch, the
first violinist:
vcernoch@iol.cz
Furthermore, the grandson of a sister of Haba's wife has founded the Haba
Information Center in Prague. He's very enthousiastic and should have all
the scores you need. He produced a triple CD with most of Haba's works (the
ones for guitar are still unrecorded...). In fact, he's not a musician but a
biologist. (That's even better. Thank you, David!) Unfortunately he has got
neither e-mail nor fax (they seem to turn out black sometimes in the Czech
Republic!). For sure he'll be delighted to learn that from now on, thanks to
Joe Monzo, people can find information on Haba on the Internet, and perhaps
even listen to some of his music.

INFORMACNI CENTRUM ALOISE HABY
Ing. Jan ANDRESKA
U druzstva Prace 409/59
140 00 Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 2 444 66 716

Wim Hoogewerf.