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	Quarter tone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A quarter tone is an interval half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which is half a whole tone.
		In equal temperament the quarter tone is 50 cents or 2
		A three-quarter tone may also be considered half of a minor third.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quarter_tone (148 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Quarter Tone
		Quarter Tone, in music, an interval, half that of a semitone.
		Tone, in music, sound that has a definite pitch, as distinct from noise, which is sound that lacks identifiable pitch.
		As the first all-American breed, the quarter horse is the essential, all-around horse of the...
	encarta.msn.com /Quarter_Tone.html (122 words)

	List of quarter tone pieces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quaternion for cello quartet, two of the cellos are tuned down a quarter tone
		À Richard Wagner, for baritone and 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op.
		Chants sur Nietzsche (2), for baritone and 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_quarter_tone_pieces (192 words)

	Masking by the Numbers
		As the tones become progressively stronger or weaker, their selection is reduced until pure fl and pure white are reached.
		The gray tones in Figure 7 are areas of the image – predominantly three-quarter tones and quarter tones – that will be partially selected.
		The few dark gray tones will allow darker features in the sky to a tiny effect but overall the sky is protected from further clipping as we try to brighten the middle tones and quarter tones.
	www.luminous-landscape.com /tutorials/masking.shtml (1958 words)

	Quarter tone -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A quarter tone is an (The difference in pitch between two notes) interval half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a (The musical interval between adjacent keys on a keyboard instrument) semitone, which is half a (A musical interval of two semitones) whole tone.
		In (The division of the scale based on an octave that is divided into twelve exactly equal semitones) equal temperament the quarter tone is 50 (A fractional monetary unit of several countries) cents or 2
		In 24 tone equal temperament, or the quarter tone scale, it is the smallest (The act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down) step.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/Q/Qu/Quarter_tone.htm (248 words)

	Arab tone system
		(Touma 1996, p.17-18) However, from these twenty-four tones seven are selected to produce a scale and thus the interval of a quarter tone is never used and the three-quarter tone or
		In practice far fewer than twenty-four tones are used in a single performance.
		Many different but similar ratios are proposed for the frequency ratios of the tones of each row and performance practice has, as of 1996, has not been investigated using electronic measurements.
	www.mp3.fm /Arab_tone_system.htm (318 words)

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		Two quarters on a strong half must either be preceded by two quarters at the end of the previous measure or be followed by a tied weak half.
		However, the resolution may be sounded on the third quarter alone and followed by a fourth quarter, used as a passing tone or consonant skip.
		The second quarter is then an upper neighbor to the tone which forms the dissonant suspension, and the line continues downward to the resolution.
	www.minotaurz.com /minotaur/edu/CPT_species/species_V.html (494 words)

	Essay by Keiko Hatanaka
		I do not know how far they, who hewed their own path by regarding not only twelve tones but also twenty-four tones equally, attempted to escape from the strictly metrical quarter tone as a result, or whether indeed they could escape from it.
		The quarter tone which Scelsi employed however, was intrinsically far removed from a quarter tone in the literal sense of the word.
		The quarter tone he pursued for his music existed not on the extended sound generated from the middle point between, for example, the tones ‘mi’ and ‘fa’, but always somewhere on the way to the next destination, after leaving such a tone and becoming independent.
	www4.ocn.ne.jp /~taraga/english/essay.html (2783 words)

	Newspapers & Technology
		One of the problems with either type of tone correction is that some of the gray level information is eliminated in order to make the specified adjustments.
		Brightening the image moves the tone curve to the left, or fl end of the input axis, sacrificing all highlight detail by clipping it to white.
		A high-contrast image containing few midtones may be improved by lifting the shadow quarter tone and dropping the highlight quarter tone, expanding these areas into the midtone output range.
	www.newsandtech.com /issues/2001/09-01/pt/09-01_monaco.htm (628 words)

	Ivan Vïshnegradsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Greatly influenced by Scriabin as a young man, Vïshnegradsky had a mystical vision which made him feel compelled to write music in intervals of less than a half-step.
		In the more polyphonic of these, the perception of quarter- or sixth-tones is made particularly clear by fugue themes moving ultrachromatically.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivan_Wyschnegradsky (270 words)

	What Are Makams?
		While Turkish classical music went through a parallel period of early development with the Arabs, the high point in the development of the Turkish classical style is during the Ottoman Empire period from the 15th through the 20th centuries.
		In theory, there are 24 tones in the Turkish octave, however in practice there are probably 31 and perhaps more.
		However, the Pythagorean comma (approximately one-eighth tone) plays a critical role as it is used to augment or diminish whole-tones (creating 'smaller' and 'larger' whole-tones) as well as half-tones.
	www.hinesmusic.com /What_Are_Makams.html (893 words)

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		In the organ, the mechanism is so complicated already that the addition of more tones to each octave (let alone the doubling of their number!) is felt by the instrument manufacturer to be an unreasonable imposition.
		When successive tones less than a quartertone apart are played with vibrato, it becomes almost impossible to detect any difference between their pitches.
		Many times a certain tone in a melody is intentionally played quite sharp or flat for a heightened artistic effect.
	sonic-arts.org /darreg/DAR2.HTM (1805 words)

	MicroFest 2001 Conference Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ideally, when 2 tones are played together, tuned to the ratios of the upper partials of a fundamental, the human ear provides the difference of the tones and, with the right acoustic conditions, the missing fundamental.
		The sine tones were tuned to the ratios of the overtones of a fundamental both within and out of the audible rage and ratios not related to the overtone series.
		In this system of tone order, eight diatonic sets (each containing pitches in the same relation to one another as the harmonic series through octave IV) have as their fundamentals pitches which also have the same relationships to one another as octave IV of the harmonic series.
	www2.hmc.edu /~alves/microfestabstracts.html (4290 words)

	eufonia - hans andré stamm - komponist und orgel virtuose
		Here the introducing organ motives contain descending quarter tones, though which these motives get a weeping expression according to the text ("in sin and misery we are weeping").
		The singing of quarter tones shows to be very difficult even to professional singers and a very good choir like the "Capella Piccola" (conductor: Thomas Reuber).
		This derives from the fact, that the quarter tone is not yet felt as a "discrete" interval, but as a result of intonation correction or as a ornamental motive.
	www.eufonia.de /english/komposition.php (369 words)

	Temperament
		A mean tone temperament is a system of tuning which seeks to close the overlap in the circle of fifths by reducing the size of most of the fifths.
		One approach to mean tone temperament on keyboards with only one set of fl note keys is to pick and mix members of both the ascending and descending series so as to obtain the most even semitone steps, Db, Eb, F#, G# A#.
		The pattern of intervals in the new scale is exactly the same as that in the old (tone, tone, semitone; tone; tone, tone semitone) so this is not a different mode, it is a different key, the same mode but from a different starting note.
	www.midicode.com /tunings/temperament.shtml (3005 words)

	1 Tone Equal Temperament - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Scarlatti composed when _ and 1/5 comma mean tone were the accepted standard, although modified mean tone and well tempered tunings were gradually being adopted.
		A quarter tone is an interval half as wide as a semitone, which is half a...Find thousands of free online definitions and reference guides at TheFreeDictionary.com.
		tone equal temperament (though not in the strictest of senses, as in the string quartet the violins take the 1/1 as...
	tone.fmqg.com /index.php?k=1-tone-equal-temperament (1086 words)

	Quarter Tones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If you had a sharp note like a C# that you wanted to play a quarter tone low you would have a down arrow and a sharp accidentals preceeding the note.
		In March 1965 Don was told that Pavel Batny, a noted jazz and symphonic composer in Czechoslovakia, was experimenting with quarter tone trumpets.
		He had composed a piece for a player who had a quarter tone trumpet.
	abel.hive.no /oj/musikk/trompet/tpin/Quarter_Tones.html (292 words)

	Jemsite - Quarter tone frets - Finally finished the project! Read...
		Only the spaces between the 12 lowest frets have been fitted with a quarter tone fret.
		The quarter tones actually went in the blues style pretty well, as i could focus on the "weird intervals" (blue notes for some) without just using them as transitions through bending.
		Unless he decides to let me modify a bass with quarter tone frets to go with it, of course...
	www.jemsite.com /forums/showthread.php?t=8051 (888 words)

	The Arabic Maqam
		For this reason also, only a few quarter tones are exploited (with the understanding that the term quarter tone is approximate, and that many semitones include microtonal variations).
		Each maqam may include microtonal variations such that tones, half tones and quarter tones in its underlying scale are not precisely that.
		The phenomenon that greatly influenced intonation in Arabic music was the introduction of even-tempered instruments (some of which were altered to produce quarter tones), mostly in the second half of the 20th century.
	www.maqamworld.com /maqamat.html (1738 words)

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	Quarter tone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Quarter tone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Many musical genres and cultures use quarter tones or the quarter tone scale, including:
		The article about Quarter tone contains information related to Quarter tone and External links.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Quarter-tone (142 words)

	Stichting Huygens-Fokker: Ivan Wyschnegradsky
		Soon he came to the conclusion that the semitone system uses the possible musical tonespace in only a very limited way, and that a more detailed filling-in of this tone space was a primary musical need for him.
		Because he considered using the frequency domain in a fully continuous way unachievable, he chose the practical compromise of the quarter-tone system; which is compatible with the traditional system and at the same time more refined.
		With this notion he meant a complete sound, the sound of an infinite number of tones, sounding simultaneously in an infinite sound continuum.
	www.xs4all.nl /~huygensf/english/wyschnegradsky.html (766 words)

	Making a Red Box out of a Tone Dialer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Many people ask me what the legitimate use of a tone dialer is. Tone dialers are used to access touch tone voicemails and voice menus when you're calling from a rotary dial phone.
		The Radio Shack Tone Dialer mod was one of the first boxes I ever built and has proven to be the most useful of all the boxes I've experimented with.
		When held 'upside-down' it is capable of producing tones similar to the Bell ACTS tones that emulate a quarter being dropped into a payphone.
	www.phonelosers.org /redboxtonedial.html (3477 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These in-between notes are said to be a 1/4 step away from our standard notes and are called quarter tones.
		There is the problem of how to play 24 tone music on traditional instruments.
		We can still refer to the bass side notes by their regular note names so that we don't have to change our thinking of what basic note we are playing.
	home.comcast.net /~rwkeating/qtone.htm (449 words)

	Quarter Tone - Musician Forums
		Today, my friend was talking to me about quarter tones, unfortunately all he knew about them were that there mostly seen in europe and oriental countries.
		well there are quarter bends too when you bend it halfway up one fret, so it might be using those.
		The distance (sound-wise) between each fret on a guitar is a semitone, a quarter tone is half of that distance.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=182136 (283 words)

	Quarter Tone Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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	www.karr.net /search/encyclopedia/Quarter_tone (293 words)

	FINGMICR
		Heckel-system bassoon quinquepartite-tone (1/5- tone) fingerings--31-note division of the octave (index)
		Thus, C+3 is 1/4 of a whole tone above C3; C#+3 is 3/4 of a whole step above C3.
		In this 31-tone scale B2 is 1/5 whole step lower than Cb3; C#3 is 1/5 whole tone lower than Db3, and D#3 is 1/5 step lower than Eb3.
	idrs.colorado.edu /bsnfing/fingmicr.htm (238 words)

	ETHNOMUSICOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These arrows may be used in conjunction with both flats and sharps, too, where they will conceivably be used for differences of exactly one quarter tone.
		They were almost never employed here because of that great difficulty in determining by ear whether the difference is exactly a quarter tone or only approximately.
		In many cases, especially in melodies with typical tone deviations of degree, such measurements would give highly interesting and mathematically exact data about the deviations, as well as about their constancy.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~cfaah/emancipation/ethnomusicology.htm (545 words)

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		The Quarter tone is a 1700 and 2200 mhz tone that stays on for 33ms, off for 33ms, and is repeated five times.
		A beep tone when any key is pressed and a long beep should sound after the P1 key has been pressed to indicate that the programming sequence was performed correctly.
		Second, the other tones that you may have are potentially of no use to you from a payphone anymore.
	web.textfiles.com /hacking/redbox.010.01 (6172 words)

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