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	Microtone - Information at Halfvalue.com
		Microtonal music is music using microtones â” intervals of less than an equally spaced semitone, or as Charles Ives put it, the "notes between the cracks" of the piano.
		Microtonal scales that are played contiguously are chromatically microtonal; those which are not use the various contiguous pitches as alternative versions of larger intervals (Burns, 1999).
		Microtonality often appears to occur in popular rock music in contexts where it is not notated or explicitly described as microtonal, but is nonetheless quite audible.
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	Microtonal music
		Microtonal music is a term for music which uses microtones -- intervals of less than a semitone, or as Charles Ives put it, the "notes between the cracks" of the piano.
		Some Western composers have embraced the use of microtonal scales, dividing an octave into 19, 31, 43, 72 and other numbers of pitcheses such as the 24 tone quarter tone scale, rather than the more common 12.
		Microtonal scales that are played contiguously are chromatically microtonal, those which are not use the various contiguous pitches as alternative versions of larger intervals (Burns, 1999).
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	microtonal music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Microtonal music is music using microtones -- intervals of less than a semitone, or as Charles Ives put it, the "notes between the cracks" of the piano.
		However Vicentino's experiments were primarily motivated by his research (as he saw it) on the ancient Greek genera, and by his desire to have acoustically pure intervals available within chromatic compositions.
		Other rock artists using microtonality in their work include Glenn Branca (who has created a number of symphonic works for ensembles of microtonally tuned electric guitars) and Jon and Brad Catler (who play microtonal electric guitar and electric bass guitar).
	wikipedia.openfun.org /en/wikipedia/m/mi/microtonal_music.html (365 words)

	Scale (music) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term microtonal music usually refers to music with roots in traditional Western music that employs non-standard scales or scale intervals.
		Chromatic scales are common, especially in modern jazz.
		The notes in a chord are usually a subset of a particular scale, in the common practice period being built upward by thirds from a particular scale degree.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music+scale (814 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Tonal_music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tonal music composed in other scale systems is referred to as microtonal, and while microtonal music draws from tonal theory, it is generally treated separately in text books and other works on music.
		However, within the tonal system, notes "between" the chromatic system are used in various contexts, including quarter tones and various effects such as portmanteau or glissando, where the instrumentalist moves between established notes of the chromatic scale.
		Chords are built from notes on a scale or on chromatic notes, which are supposed to be heard as variations of the basic scale.
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	t h o m a s + b o r g m a n n - tenor - soprano - sopranino - saxofone
		The tinge of silence is always present in Bergman's right hand, playing ghostly in the middle registers with elegance and restraint as Borgmann intones chromatically on the sopranino and then plays with it in the context of the feeling of strangeness and alienation.
		They were capable of bringing together both side of the jazz avant-garde (the fiery, wildly dissonant, and intense side with the space exploring, multi-textured, microtonally conscious side) effortlessly, and often within the same composition.
		Charles is his fixture, compelling him, edging him toward the ledge that Morris finally urges him to leap over in "Down Under." Almost 19 minutes long, this opening track better sums up the language of articulation used by this trio than anything else on the set, though all of its is worthwhile.
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	Encyclopedia: Musical-scale
		Arab music maqams may use quarter tones and thus from fifteen to the max of twenty-four pitches, though these may similarly be inflecions (Zonis, 1973).
		Neither Indian nor Arab scales are chromatically microtonal (Burns, 1999).
		Chromatic scales are common in all, especially, modern Jazz music.
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	Encyclopedia: Microtonal music
		Ivan Alexandrovich Vïshnegradsky (1893-1979, also Wyschnegradsky) was a Russian composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, including the quarter tone scale, though he used scales of up to 71 divisions.
		Eivind Groven (October 8, 1901–February 8, 1977) was a Norwegian microtonal composer and music-theorist.
		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).
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	Speculations on Marchetto of Padua's "Fifth-Tones", © 1997, 1998, 1999 by Joe Monzo
		Because the aforesaid chromatic, diatonic, and enharmonic [species] cannot be fully treated until the whole tone is examined (since they are semitones), we shall first study the nature of the whole tone and how it is divided by numbers.
		The Chromatic Semitone is that which includes 4 of the 5 dieses of the whole tone, and, as said earlier, it completes a whole tone when a diesis is added to it.
		from the diatonic and diesis arise the chromatic
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	Chromatically Microtonal Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography at Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	www.jazzweekly.com \| Reviews
		What could be the shaking of dice upon the accordion keys contributes, while a trumpeter seems to expend more time scraping and manipulating the horn's finish then expelling air through the bell.
		A close parallel to this would be to consider the microtonal explorations of trumpeters like American Greg Kelly and German Axel Dörner and multiply them by two.
		Growls and peeps arise from within the bell followed by a melody that moves from allegro to adagio, finally expanding from chromatic trills into loud, sharp, pinpointed whole notes.
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	NAHOO \|\| Maths \|\| The Relationship between Mathematics and Musical Temperament
		Note values are derived mathematically, however unsuitable for chromatically diverse music today as pairs of intervals can sound very different depending on their base note.
		The name “meantone” provides some insight into this system where the note D lies exactly between the notes C and E. Enharmonic equivalents are not present in Meantone, chromatic semitones vary depending on the base note, requiring retuning as the musical keys change in separate pieces of music.
		Unlike Meantone, this scale system allows for chromatic keys to be tempered to be enharmonically equivalent allowing for numerous modulations of keys throughout a single musical piece.
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	Relativistic electronic musical instrument - Patent 5565641 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A chromatic step is the interval which is defined as chromatic in a given scale's data.
		So the octave of a microtonal scale is not necessarily the interval of the Western scale, in which the top note is twice the frequency of the bottom note.
		Microtonality is achieved in the present invention by means of sending MIDI "pitch bend" data.
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	Microtonal Encyclopedia Article, History, Biography at Karr.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	The Sonic Network, Inc
		The rest of the instruments are sampled chromatically for the most part over the natural range of each instrument, with one sampled velocity layer.
		Extended sample ranges have been mapped into each patch, to accommodate the use of the entire keyboard and to allow for sounds that wouldn't necessarily be possible by the instruments in the real world (great effect samples).
		Although because of the lack of velocity layers, chromatically sampled notes and more advanced control over a wider variety of articulations (key switching etc), it does not take full advantage of what can been done with hard-disc streaming samplers with the GigaStudio version of the library (as reviewed).
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	Starr Labs
		Each row of keys is ordered in a chromatic sequence just like the fretted notes of a guitar string.
		Starting with the low C-natural as the lowest white key, each string is tuned chromatically and appears as a nearly-two octave section of a piano keyboard.
		The strings are again offset in perfect fourth intervals and the resulting pattern of fl and white keys gives a skewed "Z"-pattern, hence the name for this configuration.
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	Question—What would be most helpful in music today to the composer, to the performer, and to the theorizer
		Moving between one key and another (of the same quality) a Q away often allows short chromatic passages in diatonic music, and the same holds true with the decatonic s cale.
		Kraehenbuehl and Schmidt, inspired by Yasser, proposed an evolution proceeding from pentatonic to heptatonic to chromatic (12 tones) to "hyperchromatic" (22 tones) to 41 tones per octave, corresponding with a harmonic limit that increases from 3 to 5 t o 7 to 11.
		Although Kraehenbuehl and Schmidt do not address the issue of temperament, it is reasonable to suppose that they would allow for equal temperament when it preserves the consonance relationships of the prevailing harmonic limit, so that the present usage of 12-equal may be seen according to their theory.
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		To claim (as many would) that the arithmetical construction is more valid than the musical reality is to cease to have any relevance for the realm of music and to engage in a meta-musical game reminiscent of the worst excesses of serialism.
		The latter would dictate simply that two voices can be chromatically altered in opposite directions if both resolve by step in the direction of the alteration.
		It seems unlikely, though, that one could maintain a sense of "key" unless the diatonic notes are treated as the main notes and the other notes used only for "septimalization" or for passing tones or chords.
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	Classical Archives Forum: Experiments
		To my knowledge, the most radical advances in orchestras since then have been the adoption of steel stings on fiddles, tympani that are chromatically tuned by pedal, the development of the double french horn, and the use of the Boehm system of simplified fingering replaced the old Albert system on clarinets and flutes.
		Microtones can be used to a very satisfying end to communicate certain moods.
		The microtonal piece was composed by Thryomanes and can be downloaded from the Furry Music Foundation at http://www.vulpine.pp.se/fmf/music/.
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	Sesquipedalian Web Page: MPhil Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In this style of composition, chromatic elements were not employed by the composers to colour or support classical harmony; rather they formed definite and independent structural links in their compositions.
		Samson considered Busoni’s place in music history to be a link in the chromatic confusion of the early part of the twentieth century: a link between the Austro-German tradition that manifest itself in the Second Viennese School and the non-Germanic composers who sought independent tonal languages, such as Debussy, Bartók and Stravinsky.
		The chromatic elements in many of his more mature compositions have quite independent functions within the harmonic structure.
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	incroce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The process is accumulative; thus the original starting-points are frequently returned to, and their later chromatic adherents are constantly reiterated, such that a continuous cluster is effected on three levels, gradually expanding to the point of overlap.
		The chromatic descent of moment 1, having lost something of its clarity as a result of the complete transfer to tremolo, tumbles down to a low F# (onset of moment 2), where it lies "gurgling" for a while, as a volcano about to erupt.
		Meanwhile a chromatic ascent is discernible from the cello melody of RNs37-47, and another chromatic descent appears in parallel 6/4 chords, encompassing RNs 38-4 (Fig.Jii).
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	Microtonal MIDI Keyboard Controller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I am in the process of developing a flexible keyboard-style microtonal MIDI controller and performance software capable of allowing performers to play in tuning systems with more than 12 notes per octave, but have the octave (2/1) still fall within the same physical space as a traditional piano keyboard.
		I have investigated several ways of going about this and researched alternate keyboard controllers from as far back as the 1300's.
		The approach that is novel with him is that he applies a microtuning not chromatically, but to an already existing form.
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	Musical-instrument controller with triad-forming note-trigger convergence points - US Patent 6670535 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the inventive hexagonal array, consecutive note triggers in a row are adjacent and form fifths intervals; while consecutive note triggers in a column are not adjacent (in the note array) and form chromatic (semi-tone) intervals.
		For example, a hexagonal C note trigger can be adjacent to and collectively surrounded by: E, G, Eb, Ab, F, and A. In this specific aspect, a chromatic progression proceeds up each column, spanning a third and then wrapping to the next column.
		The unshaded notes of a row rise chromatically from left to right in each row; likewise, the shaded notes of a row rise chromatically from left to right.
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	Alan W. Pollack's Notes on "I've Got A Feeling" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The harmony is dominated by that Beatlesque neo-Blues quartet of chords: I, IV, V, and flat-VII, supplemented by the cliché of a chromatic stream of diminished triads played over a pedal point.
		George plays a particularly blistering lead here which ends in the last four measures with an infamous microtonal lick, which in the Twickenham scene from the "Let It Be" film becomes of the focal point of an acutely painful instance of Paul insistently riding poor Hari.
		Again, I prefer to treat the chromatically slinking diminished chords over the pedal point as a simple harmonic envelope.
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	Scale (music) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Neither Indian nor Arab scales are (Click link for more info and facts about chromatically microtonal) chromatically microtonal (Burns, 1999).
		The term (Click link for more info and facts about microtonal music) microtonal music usually refers to music with roots in traditional Western music that employs non-standard scales or scale intervals.
		Thus in a C major scale: CDEFGAB, a chord built on C is the notes CEG.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scale_(music).htm (1222 words)

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