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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. List of compositions by Alois Hába - Wikipedia

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    The most important works include his String quartets, which document and demonstrate the development of the composer's style (microtonal music and his most innovative opera: "Matka" (Mother). 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 ...

  4. Ezra Sims - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Talk:Microtonality - Wikipedia

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    The definition of "microtonailty" is given in the first sentence of the article: "Microtonal music is music using microtones—intervals of less than an equally spaced semitone." It has nothing to do with tonality, atonality, bitonality, or any similar terms.

  6. Alois Hába - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Harry Partch - Wikipedia

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    Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of unique musical instruments.He composed using scales of unequal intervals in just intonation, and was one of the first 20th-century composers in the West to work systematically with microtonal scales, alongside Lou Harrison.

  9. Ivan Wyschnegradsky - Wikipedia

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    Wyschnegradsky in Paris, c. 1930. Ivan Alexandrovich Wyschnegradsky [n 1] (US: / v ɪ ʃ n ə ˈ ɡ r ɑː d s k i / vish-ne-GROD-skee; May 14 [O.S. 2 May] 1893 – September 29, 1979), was a Russian composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, including the quarter tone scale (24-tet: 50 cents) utilized in his pieces for two pianos in quarter tones.

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