John Foulds, microtonal composer?

I just noticed an item in Jessica Duchen's classical music blog (here: http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/genius-of-john-foulds.html )

"Foulds spent his life in a radical exploration of music and spirituality: he experimented with quarter-tones before Bartok did and with Indian music techniques before Messiaen got to them."

Anyone around here know anything more?

djw

Hi Daniel,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Wolf <djwolf@...> wrote:
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>
> I just noticed an item in Jessica Duchen's classical music blog (here:
> http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/genius-of-john-foulds.html )
>
> "Foulds spent his life in a radical exploration of music and
> spirituality: he experimented with quarter-tones before Bartok did and
> with Indian music techniques before Messiaen got to them."
>
>
> Anyone around here know anything more?

According to the English Wikipedia article about him,
he began using quarter-tones in the 1890s. But there
is no other information about that, nor is their use
mentioned in the listing of his compositions.

-monz

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Wolf <djwolf@...> wrote:
>
>
> I just noticed an item in Jessica Duchen's classical music blog (here:
> http://jessicamusic.blogspot.com/2007/11/genius-of-john-foulds.html )

I have the two CDs in
http://www.huygens-fokker.org/doc/discs.html .
It's good music, too bad not more of it is recorded. The Lyra Celtica
concerto doesn't sound microtonal in that performance though.
There are a couple of articles about Foulds listed in the bibliography
too.

Manuel