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<br><div><div>CARSON FARLEY kirjoitti 8.5.2014 kello 4.48:</div><div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 16px; "><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14px; ">As a composer interested in new directions in composition, John Cage is an important influence for two reasons - he introduced micro-tonality into the language of Western music with his prepared piano works [snip]</span></font></p></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></div></div><div>???</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Didn't composers like Juan Carillo, Alois Haba and Ivan Wyschnegradsky write microtonal works much before Cage (and, as far as I know, before Partch, whom Farley also mentions)?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Or do I misunderstand the English meaning of "introduce"?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; ">Olli Väisälä</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><a href="mailto:ovaisala@siba.fi">ovaisala@siba.fi</a></span></div><div>Sibelius Academy</div><div>University of the Arts, Helsinki</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><p><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></p></span></span></div></div></body></html>