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Hector Aguilar <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:52:16 -0700
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Mike Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Can anyone think of other similar comparable retunings during
>a movement in the Romantic (or Classical) chamber literature?

Apparently the term is scordatura.  I don't know about chamber literature,
but in the symphonic literature there's Saint Saens' Danse Macabre which
requires the concertmaster to tune his E-string down a half-step so it
makes a dissonant tritone with the A-string, and I understand that
Mahler's 4th symphony also requires unusual tuning by the concertmaster
in the second movement.

Searching wikipedia will give you a larger list of examples.

hector aguilar

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