Alois Hába quotes

Alois Hába was a Czech composer and music theorist, renowned for his pioneering work with microtonal music. His innovative use of quarter tones and sixth tones expanded the boundaries of Western classical music. He influenced generations of musicians and composers interested in exploring new sonic possibilities. Here is 1 of his quotes:

The folksong collectors Bartok (Hungary) and Plicka (Czechoslovakia) notated the perceived interval deviations with a plus or minus sign (+,-). Older folksong collectors had notated all the intervals in the system of semitones, not observing the finer modifications of intervals. This first gained currency from the phongraph and tape recordings of folk music from various lands....From folksong I learned to perceive melodic intervals a little smaller or greater than those of the semitone-system....In my youth it often happened that the folk singers, who during the intermissions of dance festivals sang songs of "their kind," deviating from the semitone system, demanded that the first violinist of the Wisowitzer Kapelle play "their" melody just as they sang it. Once a tempermental singer threatened to strike the double-bass player with a beer mug if he didn't "play along" with the song, exactly as he sang it. (Alois Hába)

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Alois Hába

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Born: June 21, 1893
Died: November 18, 1973
Quotes count: 1
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