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  2. Microtonality - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Category:Microtonality - Wikipedia

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    Microtonal musicians (1 C, 47 P) N. ... Xenharmonic music This page was last edited on 28 January 2014, at 14:50 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  4. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    The smallest pitch difference between notes (in most Western music) (e.g. F–F ♯) (Note: some contemporary music, non-Western music, and blues and jazz uses microtonal divisions smaller than a semitone) semplice Simple sempre Always sentimento Feeling, emotion sentito lit. "felt", with expression senza Without senza misura Without measure ...

  5. Xenharmonic music - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Sonido 13 - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of pitch intervals - Wikipedia

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    Comparison between tunings: Pythagorean, equal-tempered, quarter-comma meantone, and others.For each, the common origin is arbitrarily chosen as C. The degrees are arranged in the order or the cycle of fifths; as in each of these tunings except just intonation all fifths are of the same size, the tunings appear as straight lines, the slope indicating the relative tempering with respect to ...

  8. Accidental (music) - Wikipedia

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    Composers of microtonal music have developed a number of notations for indicating the various pitches outside of standard notation. One such system for notating quarter tones, used by the Czech Alois Hába and other composers, is shown.

  9. Category:Microtonal musicians - Wikipedia

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    Microtonal musicians use tuning systems other than 12-tone equal temperament, or whatever the standard tuning for their culture is. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.