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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.
Microtonal compositions (4 P) J. Just tuning and intervals (4 C, 14 P, 3 F) M. Microtonal musicians (1 C, 47 P) N. ... Xenharmonic music This page was last ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Ezra Sims (January 16, 1928 in Birmingham, Alabama — January 30, 2015 in Boston, Massachusetts) [1] was one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition. He invented a system of notation that was adopted by many microtonal composers after him, including Joseph Maneri.
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 ...
James Tenney. James Tenney (August 10, 1934 – August 24, 2006) was an American composer and music theorist.He made significant early musical contributions to plunderphonics, sound synthesis, algorithmic composition, process music, spectral music, microtonal music, and tuning systems including extended just intonation.