microtonal fingerings for oboe

Hi all,

I'm new to the group and happy to be here.

I am teaching a course entitled "Tuning and Temperament in Western Music" (Topics in Music
Theory and Analysis) at the Boston Conservatory.

One of my students is looking do do some experimenting on oboe. Could anyone point me to
a set of quarter-tone or other microtonal fingerings for that instrument?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Jim Dalton

Jim,

Bassoon maestro Johnny Reinhard in New York may be
able to help you. You can reach him at
afmmjr@aol.com, which stands for the:

'American Festival of Microtonal Music - Johnny
Reinhard'.

Mark Rankin

--- jimdalton15 <jdalton@bostonconservatory.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to the group and happy to be here.
>
> I am teaching a course entitled "Tuning and
> Temperament in Western Music" (Topics in Music
> Theory and Analysis) at the Boston Conservatory.
>
> One of my students is looking do do some
> experimenting on oboe. Could anyone point me to
> a set of quarter-tone or other microtonal fingerings
> for that instrument?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim Dalton
>
>

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This book (in German) has eighth-tone fingering charts:

Peter Veale und Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf: Die Spieltechnik der Oboe. Ein Kompendium mit Anmerkungen zur gesamten Oboenfamilie.Mit CD von von Bï¿œrenreiter Verlag (Taschenbuch - 1998)

Daniel Wolf made a valuable suggestion. Singer is another source for oboe
fingerings (out of the Bartolozzi school). PITCH I:4 has a fingering chart in
quartertones by Matthew Sullivan.

However, as someone that built and published my own charts for bassoon,
fingerings are more the responsibility of the player, and not the composer.
Players usually offer their fingerings to composers after first performances,
upon which they become features of a future edition.

Let's keep in mind that instrument can be quite different one to the next,
as is the difference in reeds, embuouchres, etc.

It was Heinz Holliger who made eighthtone oboe playing a reality; however, I
am not aware of his releasing his fingerings in any available source.

Johnny Reinhard

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Thanks to all for your very valuable and much appreciated help.

Jim Dalton