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Microtonality is the use in music of microtones — intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.
Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, Op. 28, is a set of pieces in various microtonal equal temperaments composed and released on LP in 1980 by American composer Easley Blackwood Jr. In the late 1970s, Blackwood won a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to investigate the harmonic and modal properties of ...
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John Chalmers, author of Divisions of the Tetrachord, wrote, "The converse of this definition is that music which can be performed in 12-tone equal temperament without significant loss of its identity is not truly microtonal." [2] Thus xenharmonic music may be distinguished from twelve-tone equal temperament, as well as use of intonation and ...
Sonido 13 is a theory of microtonal music created by the Mexican composer Julián Carrillo around 1900 [1] and described by Nicolas Slonimsky as "the field of sounds smaller than the twelve semitones of the tempered scale." [2] Carrillo developed this theory in 1895 [3] while he was experimenting with his violin.
In microtonal music, magic temperament is a regular temperament whose period is an octave and whose generator is an approximation to the 5/4 just major third. [1] [2] [3] In 12-tone equal temperament, three major thirds add up to an octave, since it tempers the interval 128/125 to a unison. In magic temperament, this comma is not tempered away ...
20th-Century Microtonal Notation. New York: Greenwood Press. Richards, Edwin Michael. 1992. The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. [Fairport, New York]: E + K Publishers. Riley, Charles A. 1996. Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music and Psychology. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-742-2.
Hába's first microtonal composition is Suite, op.1a from 1918, his earliest published mictrotonal piece is the 2nd Quartet (1920) and his last was the 16th Quartet from 1967. Note that 'semitone' refers to the usual 12-tET scale, ' quarter-tone ' refers to 24-tET, ' 5th-tone ' refers to 31-tET (not 30-tET), ' 6th-tone ' refers to 36-tET, '12 ...