Year
1931/32
Time
12'
Instr.
Fl. Ob. Klar. Fag. Hrn. Vl. Vla. Vc. Cb.
Edition
The original publisher 'Filmkunst Musikverlag' Munich is not in charge anymore. Please contact the 'Alois Hába Information Centre' Prague (dominik.andreska@gmail.com), for obtaining the music material.
This composition has been played by the Ebony Band
CD
Around Prague 1922-1937, Channel Classics CCS 34813, see Discography
The four Nonets which Hába wrote for the Czech Nonet make it clear that he will go down in history not only as a pioneer of microtonal music but also as a master of form and style, in works in the more familiar idiom of atonal, diatonic music.
The Nonet no. 2 op. 41 (Fantasia for Nonet in the Seven-note System) was written in 1932. The work is based on the seven medieval modes (Phrygian, Lydian etc.). Central to each of the twenty-three short episodes, which flow into one another, is one of the notes of the Dorian mode (equivalent to the white piano keys from D to D).