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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.
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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 ...
Microtonal music or microtonality is the music with microtones (also called 'microintervals') used as ornamental inflexions of basically diatonic/chromatic scales or substantial elements of specifically microtonal scales. Some scholars also call 'microtonal' music with intervals which deviate from a semitone of the Western 12-tone equal ...
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.
Again, this may be a microtonal, almost imperceptible affair, or it may be a slur between notes a semitone apart, so that there is actually not one blue note but two. A blue note may even be marked by a microtonal shake of a kind common in Oriental music. The degrees of the mode treated in this way are, in order of frequency, the third, seventh ...
Maqam scales in traditional Arabic music are microtonal, not based on a twelve-tone equal-tempered musical tuning system, as is the case in modern Western music. Most maqam scales include a perfect fifth or a perfect fourth (or both), and all octaves are perfect. The remaining notes in a maqam scale may or may not exactly land on semitones.
His professional debut (12 note ET music) occurred on a Composers Forum program in New York, 1959. In 1960, compelled by his ear, he began writing microtonal music, and continued to do so for the rest of his life, with the occasional exception being taped music for dancers.