Text pertaining to Foulds:

John Foulds wrote a piece in quarter-tones in the 1890s, 
making him one of the first Europeans to do so since the 
ancient Greeks. His importance does not, however, lie 
with the use of quarter-tones as much as in his fusion of 
Indian and European concepts. He claimed to have received 
some of his compositions from devas while in a trance, and 
made arrangements of similarly revealed compositions by 
his wife Maud MacCarthy (Swami Omananda Puri), an English 
ethnomusicologist, composer and yogi. Some of his works 
have appeared on CD, and a comprehensive edition should 
reveal new insights regarding the integration of Indian 
and European musical and spiritual ideas, as well as shed 
light on the milieu that shaped the work of composers such 
as Gustav Holst, André Jolivet and Giacinto Scelsi.