Composers
Hall Overton told me that jazz pianists could take full advantage of "out-of-tune" pitches on a piano.
Rick Tagawa, c1968
"Several experimentalists have managed to survive in the predominantly conservative musical culture of Mexico. Julian Carrillo (1875-1965), an early western- world experimenter with microtonal scales, is perhaps best known. The practically unknown Augusto Novaro (1891- 1960) designed and built string instruments, guitars and pianos with experimental intonational arrangements, and published his treatise on a "Natural System of Music" in Mexico City in 1951." [Garland, Peter, "Selected Studies for Player Piano," Soundings Book 4, spring- summer 1977, Berkeley, California, p1]
Julian Carrillo & the 13th Sound
Jesus Bernal, Organista Mexicano, teaches acoustics @ National Conservatory, Mexico
Biography (part 1) of Julian Carrillo (in Spanish)
Biography (part 2) of Julian Carrillo (in English)
Julian Carrillo 13th Sound & the Quarter Tone Guitar (in Spanish)
Julian Carrillo's Dos Bosquejos performed in March 1992 @ the Centre
for Microtonal Music in London
Julian
Carrillo Cello Concertino (1927) in repertoire of Frances-Marie Uitti
Julian Carrillo Mass for Pope John XXIII sound recording
"Several experimentalists have managed to survive in the predominantly conservative musical culture of Mexico. Julian Carrillo (1875-1965), an early western- world experimenter with microtonal scales, is perhaps best known. The practically unknown Augusto Novaro (1891- 1960) designed and built string instruments, guitars and pianos with experimental intonational arrangements, and published his treatise on a "Natural System of Music" in Mexico City in 1951." Garland ,Peter, "Selected Studies for Player Piano," Soundings Book 4, spring- summer 1977, Berkeley, California, p1]
Stravinsky: Once at a Border - Director: Tony Palmer (1982)
Stravinsky's Journeys Documentary | Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals