idc@dcl-cs.UUCP (Iain D. Craig) (07/01/85)
In article <2187@topaz.ARPA> kerch@lll-tis-b writes: >From: Berry Kercheval <kerch@lll-tis-b> > >I can think of several more Honest-to Verdi SF operas. >... Weber wrote one called something like >"the Bobolinks",A I know little more than the fact that the score is one >of the few "serious" musical works to call for a theremin. > > > -berry Kercheval > kerch@lll-tisb.ARPA or berry@zehntel.UUCP Sorry, I don't think Weber (i.e., Carl Maria v. Weber) used a theramin. A Theramin is an electro-accoustic instrument invented, I believe, by one Robert (?) Theramin (Theramin invented it anyway). The device was used by Charles Ives in the 4th Symphony which dates from about 1920 (again I can't quite remember the date). Weber may have used some other strange instrument, but, as I say, I don't think he used a theramin at all (he was a contemporary of Beethoven). Just for useless information, Alban Berg is the accepted first user of the vibraphone in the modern orchestra (Lulu - Opera in 3 Acts. completed by Czerha in 1978-79). -- UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!dcl-cs!idc DARPA: idc%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: idc@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 ext 4476 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK.