enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Microtonality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonality

    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. Quarter tone - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_tone

    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.

  4. Post-classical history - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-classical_history

    The historical field of world history, which looks at common themes occurring across multiple cultures and regions, has enjoyed extensive development since the 1980s. [15] However, World History research has tended to focus on early modern globalization (beginning around 1500) and subsequent developments, and views post-classical history as ...

  5. Arabic maqam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_maqam

    A certain rhythm does sometimes identify the style of a performer, but this is dependent upon their performance technique and is never characteristic of the maqam as such." [ 2 ] The compositional or rather precompositional aspect of the maqam is the tonal-spatial organization, including the number of tone levels, and the improvisational aspect ...

  6. Talk:Microtonality - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Microtonality

    A microtone is a small interval, smaller than a semitone. Bach used semitones, but we don't call his music semitonal, or chromatic, or whatever. I compose extended JI, and the majority of intervals I use are significantly wider than a whole tone. Microtones crop up in the voice leading, but are not especially prevalent.

  7. Ear training - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ear_training

    Many musicians use functional pitch recognition in order to identify, understand, and appreciate the roles and meanings of pitches within a key. To this end, scale-degree numbers or movable- do solmization ( do, re, mi, etc.) can be quite helpful.

  8. Tone cluster - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_cluster

    The modern keyboard is designed for playing a diatonic scale on the white keys and a pentatonic scale on the black keys. Chromatic scales involve both. Three immediately adjacent keys produce a basic chromatic tone cluster.

  9. Bassoon - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassoon

    The frontmost key is used, in addition to the thumb key, to create G ♭ 2 and G ♭ 3; on many bassoons this key operates a different tone hole to the thumb key and produces a slightly flatter F ♯ ("duplicated F ♯ "); some techniques use one as standard for both octaves and the other for utility, but others use the thumb key for the lower ...