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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Quartertone guitars and mandolins, as well as other fretted instruments, have been made, and of course the Hawaiian steel guitar is admirably suited to quartertones, provided the player can be persuaded to avoid that annoying eternal glissando and be compelled to proceed by definite scale-steps instead!
		Halving the semitone into the quartertone is thus a logical move; furthermore, it will still be possible to play all semitonal music on any quartertone instrument without the slightest alteration whatever.
		Unless a composer really has something to say in quartertones, he should keep to the conventional scale and not burden the musical world with mere experiments in which quartertones are tacked onto conventional musical cliches.
	sonic-arts.org /darreg/DAR2.HTM (1805 words)

	Erik Hinds and Solponticello news: 02/01/2004 - 02/29/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		There are many other customizations in addition to the quartertone frets...the instrument has 6 played strings tuned primarily in fifths, from a contrabass Eb to eb (like a guitar’s high string).
		The best way to approach quartertone fretting is to first concentrate on ignoring the additional frets and getting smooth execution in a variety of playing situations.
		Quartertone slides have a vocal quality, as the added notes mimic the fluidity of natural systems.
	www.solponticello.com /blog/2004_02_01_solponticello_archive.html (1355 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Quartertone pianos usually consist of two standard pianos placed one on top of another, so the ordinary twelve-tone keyboard is and remains standard.
		Quartertone performance on violins and other bowed-string instruments is simply a matter of 'reprogramming,' to use the currently-fashionable computerese jargon.
		The eleventh harmonic, which misses an exact quartertone point by one one-thousandth of an octave, is of course attenuated in normal piano tones by the heavy felting of the hammers and the relatively thick strings of the modern piano.
	sonic-arts.org /darreg/XHB3.HTM (6515 words)

	PATTERN
		In these figures, the variability of spectral intensities are plotted as shaded areas on log-proportional scales along the vertical axes as a function of frequency (horizontal axis).
		Regarded as a function of frequency, the width of the shaded area is for the most part constant and apparently independent of the actual intensity values.
		Thus, a simple linear transvection (which shifts the spectrum as a whole) is automatically used to compensate for differences in mean vocal pitch of a speaker.
	www.bli.unizh.ch /BLI/Master/VOX/Programs/P95.html (1901 words)

	NewMusicbox
		FRANK J. A lot of the concerns that you have as a composer and as a musical thinker are very near and dear to my own musical interests: the whole notion of microtonality as a direction for music, working with electronics, vocal music, new approaches to opera… Let's start by talking a bit about microtonality.
		Believe it or not, I think it was George Avakian who said to me once that he thought the microtonal approach was the one that held the greatest potential for the future, because it makes the greatest challenge to performers, composers and listeners.
		In the first piece the quartertones seem mostly ornamental and the second piece is really just playing off the fact that there are 2 pianos tuned a quartertone apart.
	www.newmusicbox.org /printerfriendly.nmbx?id=876 (1604 words)

	Welcome to Mel Bay's Harmonica Sessions® Web Magazine
		The 2nd (3", 6 and 10) is commonly used between the 3 draw quartertone and root, and as the 5th of the V chord.
		The quartertone 3rd (3 draw bent a quartertone) is one of our most important blue notes and is played a lot.
		The 7 draw B is used because the quartertone Bb is not available on the 7 draw.
	www.harmonicasessions.com /jun03/featured.html (1326 words)

	Brannen Brothers Flutemakers, Inc. - The Kingma System Flute
		This is the first C concert flute to offer a full quartertone scale, as well as complete multiphonic venting, for the modern flute repertoire.
		These keys are used to produce six of the seven quartertones and multiphonic vents which are "missing" on the normal French model flute.
		The other five quartertones are produced by using the normal, open hole keys.
	www.brannenflutes.com /kingma.html (784 words)

	AFMM - PITCH CD: CHAMBER
		Dedicated to the discovery of America, this work proposes to recreate the combined impressions of fear, astonishment, and joy which are perceived when one discovers the mystery of a new universe.
		A harp in sixteenth tones, a flute playing quartertones, and a string quartet creates a sonorous space where the singer's voice moves around in supple quartertone contours.
		Scelsi used notated quartertones, glissandi, and coloring directions such as "bright" and "dark" to bring greater timbral vitality to his music.
	www.afmm.org /PitchCD/chamber.html (1210 words)

	The Microtonal Bassoon
		An adventurous attitude is all that is needed to begin and in a short time, one will be able to play quartertones with assurance.
		The remainder of the bassoon's pitch expanse represents an infinity of vital and viable intervallic relationships.
		Quartertones are born of our conventional system and may be thought of as its mirror image or as a natural consequence of chromaticism.
	idrs.colorado.edu /Publications/DR/DR10.2/DR10.2.Rein.html (896 words)

	Johnny Reinhard: Composing Polymicrotonally (essay)
		At first, all I knew for sure is that a microtone, invariably a quartertone, was located somewhere within the expanse between two relatively known entities.
		The score yields explicit notated quartertones, eighthtones, just intonation, and even an enigmatic indication to the concertmaster to play his violin entrance "somewhere between A and A-sharp." Combination tones (the direct result of 9 flutists with distinctive parts rubbing up against each other).
		It was in high school that I became acquainted with the quartertone "school" of Tui St. George Tucker and her composition students Stephen Mayer and Robert Jurgrau.
	www.stereosociety.com /body_jrpolymi.html (5599 words)

	Larry Krantz Flute Pages: Flute Books
		I used a quartertone scale as the basic framework since it relates to the chromatic scale we all know and can hear easily.
		From the quartertone, single and double arrows are used to define pitches that are slightly higher or lower (single arrow) or almost a quartertone higher or lower (double arrow).
		Using the chromatic scale as a basis and then subdividing it into quartertones and finer intervals enables the musician to relate these pitches to the system we in the West normally hear -- the chromatic scale.
	www.larrykrantz.com /multphon.htm (1011 words)

	PhotoshopTechniques Forums - *Hidden Curves.
		First, when you are doing detailed curve work you can make the dialog substantially bigger by clicking the enlarge button in the lower right corner.
		The dialog opens by default set to a quartertone matrix or in plain english, it is broken up into 16 squares.
		This toggles between a quartertone grid and one based on ten percent increments.
	www.photoshoptechniques.com /forum/showthread.php?t=83 (295 words)

	Unfretted - Fretless Guitar Resource.
		In this article, specially written for Unfretted, Erik explains Quartertone fretting and his personal involvement.
		There are many other customizations in addition to the quartertone frets; the instrument has 6 played strings tuned primarily in fifths, from a contrabass Eb to Eb (like a guitar's high string).
		All of these features contribute to limitless music-making potential, perhaps none more so than the quartertone fretting, certainly the defining characteristic in playing technique.
	www.unfretted.com /loader.php?LINK=quarter/erik_quartertone (1189 words)

	Quartertone :: About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In musical terms, a quartertone is half of a semitone.
		A quartertone is one of these microtones, and it is exactly half of a semitone.
		So a quartertone in this sense is that particular sound that the quarter makes (or used to make) when inserted into an American pay phone.
	www.quartertone.net /?about (665 words)

	The Music of Jeff Harrington
		Using MAX or KeyKit MIDI echoing processes and a quartertone-tuned synthesizer, the piece explores territory charted in my Acid Bach series but with a more dramatic and longer tension-building form.
		Periodically, in the slower sections, the percussionist lets quartertone clusters sustain, creating a night-like atmosphere.
		The title, Croche et Tient, (Crush and Hold in english) is from a post card we received from Elsie's cousin who's in the French special forces (now stationed in the Coite d'Ivoire).
	www.parnasse.com /jh/blog/microtonal-index.html (643 words)

	Farzad Farhangi - Makam Music Intervals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		While Middle Eastern musicians (specially in Arab and Persian music) themselves often speak in terms of quartertones, and notate their music as such, it is universally understood to be only a matter of convenience.
		Before exploring the actual mathematical value of the intervals in the music of the Middle east, we need to become familiar with a few basic concepts.
		Another concept that is useful in understanding the theoretical basis of Middle Eastern music is to stop thinking of “octaves” in the Western sense.
	www.farzadweb.com /aboutmusic.htm (405 words)

	24 Tone Tunings - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		New instruments and new techniques for existing instruments have recently become practical and affordable.
		effects; 22-tone for a different kind of harmony; 24-tone (quartertones) are obtainable while leaving the 12...
		You will notice that I did not include the quartertone or 24-tone system up there...
	tone.fmqg.com /index.php?k=24-tone-tunings (1030 words)

	NewMusicBox
		But since the '60s, with Bruno Bartolozzi's book New Resources for Wind Instruments, there are fingering systems for quartertones for the flute, for the clarinet, for the oboe, for the bassoon, every woodwind instrument, for saxophone… Every woodwind instrument in the orchestra can play quartertones if the musicians would learn the fingerings.
		However, I have to correct that a little bit by saying that some of the quartertones, unfortunately, some of those fingerings change the color substantially of woodwind instruments.
		Also, there aren't nearly all of them — a few quartertones which are just not, which are just really difficult to get.
	www.newmusicbox.org /article.nmbx?id=880 (728 words)

	Ivor Darreg and Xenharmonics- Perfect Sound Forever
		The motivations have been to secure smoother conventional chords, hence just intonation or that close imitation, 53-tone; or to get restful major thirds, hence meantone or 31-tone or one of the numerous 'unequal' or incomplete systems.
		The motivations for quartertone and some other systems have been to enlarge the vocabulary without having to scrap 12 tone, and similar obvious reasons.
		I knew nothing then about 19-tone and its mood, and since you can only play two sustained tones at a time on a bowed instrument, I did not hear sustained just triads or tetrads for quite some years to come.
	www.furious.com /perfect/xenharmonics.html (1868 words)

	Chant of Drums - Kâmkârs - Low prices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The name of the manufacturer is Quartertone Records.
		Quartertone Records has done a really pretty job!
		Chant of Drums was a very nice present when I got it on 10 August, 1999.
	music.lowcost.us.com /item_4230303030304a4e4152/Chant_of_Drums_K_mk_rs.php (414 words)

	State of Quartertone development
		I'm just enquiring about the state of quartertone implementation as I am writing a report and require this feature if the example is to be authentic.
		Also, I am using mudela-book for the report and was wondering whether there is any easy solution to the \begin{verbatim} problem.
		Re: mudela-book, was: Re: State of Quartertone development Adam Tee
	www.mail-archive.com /gnu-music-discuss@gnu.org/msg03824.html (108 words)

	USInk - Technical Library - Gray Bar Basics
		A test form (such as SNAP, GATF, or NAA) should be run on the press that includes two gray bars so that the editorial department will have samples to look at and can make a decision on which gray bar screening is acceptable to them.
		Many newspapers have gone to the quartertone gray bars.
		It is felt that the quartertone gray bar is more sensitive to variation by the eye, yet still yields high enough density readings to be considered accurate (by the densitometer.) During this test run the solid ink densities are set to industry specifications such as SNAP, GATF, NAA.
	www.usink.com /tech_greybarbasics1.html (1080 words)

	[Finale] Quartertone Transposition now available (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Hello, I think it might be worth mentioning that the latest TGTools can transpose quartertones correctly.
		This is especially needed for creating Bb parts etc. Currently it works with the user-defined nonstandard key signature approach only.
		I am open to requests to extend it for other methods of doing quartertones with Finale.
	www.mail-archive.com /finale@mail.shsu.edu/msg05089.html (107 words)

	Long description of photograph : quartertone and microtone notation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Long description of image : quartertone and microtone notation
		Quartertones and microtones: the top example shows notation for a quartertone sharp and a quartertone flat.
		The lower examples show notation for microtone sharp and flat.
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /thesoundexchange/images/photographs/longdesc/microtones_1082728694_gif.htm (44 words)

	Boston Microtonal Society/Musicians/Eckardt
		My choice of generating sets and their subsets and supersets is determined by my own perceptions and degrees of similarity among the derived sets.
		With regard to quartertonal intervals, I avoid interval classes that produce "perfect" intervals (fourths, fifths, octaves, excepting unisons) raised or lowered by a quartertone.
		These are also related by interval class content; semitonal sets are often subsets of larger-cardinality quartertonal sets.
	bostonmicrotonalsociety.org /Pages/MusiciansPages/Eckardt.html (670 words)

	Contrabass-L, Vol. 1, No. 41
		It's got better quartertone keys than the concert flute I picked up, so it's taking a bit longer for delivery.
		She plans to develop quarter tone systems for the larger flutes (bass in F or G and octo-bass)
		I will be performing a quartertone bass flute piece by California Institute of the ARts composer Charles Morogiello in the near future.
	www.contrabass.com /contra-archive/contra41.html (1250 words)

	Puff: An automated quartertone percussive organ by Godfried-Willem Raes
		This robot realizes a percussive organ in which every single note is driven by an individual small bellow.
		The compass is 3.5 octaves and the instrument is tuned in equal temperament quartertones (2^(1/24) intervals).
		Because of its extended range in the high treble and its quartertone tuning, this robot lends itself particularly well to music using spectral harmony techniques.
	www.logosfoundation.org /instrum_gwr/puff.html (3426 words)

	Bulletin, Vol. XXV, No. 1, Members
		The work was presented as an invited feature of the annual conference of NATS (the National Association of Teachers of Singing) at SUNY Potsdam on 13 March, and two Montreal performances took place on 17 and 20 March.
		." four quartertone studies for solo harpsichord" (1997) is included in a new two-CD release by the Montreal performer Vivia Vincente (label, Isidorart).
		The Society for the Study of Southern Literature awarded Dale Cockrell's Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World their C. Hugh Holoman Award for the best book in Southern studies.
	www.american-music.org /publications/bullarchive/Membr251.html (1111 words)

	Forum: trumpetherald.com
		Any insight or link to an article explaining how a quartertone trumpet works would be appreciated.
		its quite cool what you can do with quarter tones, and there is quite a list of music building up for quartertone trumpet.
		Schilke was also making quartertone trumpets in the Don Ellis period.
	www.trumpetherald.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=367366 (1135 words)

	Puff: quartertone PVC organ pipe table by Godfried-Willem Raes
		Puff: quartertone PVC organ pipe table by Godfried-Willem Raes
		calculation table for closed quartertone pipes, if made from PVC pipe material.
		Lengths of the required closed tubes in mm.
	www.logosfoundation.org /instrum_gwr/puff/puff_pvcpipes.html (936 words)

	Re: written the evening of September 11th, 2001. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		QUICK APPROVALS, By Amy Goldstein and Charles Lane The Bush administration and congressional Republicans immediately began to map out yesterday how they could use the GOP's sudden ascendancy in the Senate to accelerate the approval of judicial candidates.
		1 and 3 from the Acid Bach Suite for Quartertone Instrument arranged for Yamaha SY77 synth Sign up to receive the latest news via E-mail The Acid Bach Suite for Quartertone Instrument arranged for Yamaha SY77 synth.
		Even more brutal; Movements 1 and 3 from the Acid Bach Suite for Quartertone Instrument arranged for Yamaha SY77 synth.
	jefferson.village.virginia.edu /~luoma/peace/dist/Adir/FcRsYQPAQ4a4Wt.html (5236 words)

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