In a message dated 1/30/98 5:21:22 PM, you wrote: > Dennis Brain plays some amazing french horn solos wherin some notes sound incredibly out of tune. There is one note that could easily be 50 cents flat.< For what ever it’s worth, Britten instructs the horn soloist to play the “out of tune” notes as quarter tones, actually bending the pitch into that blue note, much as a jazz player would. He notates that bend into the score. Ray Irving
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