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Quarter tone on C. A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which itself is half a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches.
Velinikka, concerto for quarter-tone accordion (2008) [33] Conception, double concerto for quarter-tone guitar, quarter-tone accordion and orchestra (2012) Quarter-Tone Piano Concerto (2017) [34] Georg Friedrich Haas. 3 Hommages, for piano player on two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart [35] "Hommage à Steve Reich" (1982) "Hommage à György ...
Op. 11, 2nd Suite for quarter-tone piano (revised 1932 as op. 11b), 1922; Op. 16, 3rd Suite for quarter-tone piano (1923) Op. 17, 1st Fantasy for quarter-tone piano ...
Hába in 1957. Alois Hába (21 June 1893 – 18 November 1973) was a Czech composer, music theorist and teacher. He belongs to the important discoverers in modern classical music, and to the major composers of microtonal music, especially using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String ...
The modern Arab tone system, or system of musical tuning, is based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24-tone equal temperament, the distance between each successive note being a quarter tone (50 cents). Each tone has its own name not repeated in different octaves, unlike systems featuring octave ...
The actual notes in a fully implemented quarter-comma scale (requiring about 31 keys per octave instead of only 12) would be consonant, like all of the uncolored intervals: The dissonance is the consequence of replacing the correct quarter-comma notes with wrong notes that happen to be assigned to the same key on the 12 tone keyboard. As ...
In Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia in the 1910s and 1920s the usual term continued to be Viertelton-Musik (quarter tone music [36] [page needed]), and the type of intervallic structure found in such music was called the Vierteltonsystem, [37] [38] which was (in the mentioned region) regarded as the main term for referring to music with ...
A quarter-tone flat, half flat, or demiflat indicates the use of quarter tones; it may be marked with various symbols including a flat with a slash or a reversed flat sign (). A three-quarter-tone flat, flat and a half or sesquiflat, is represented by a demiflat and a whole flat ().