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== History == | == History == | ||
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Sometime before 1900, composer [[Julián Carrillo|Julián Carrillo Trujillo]] performed experiments on a violin string, using a razor blade to achieve very precise intervals smaller than a [[semitone]], which he called "microtono." Over a decade later, the music theorist Maud MacCarthy Mann began using the term "microtone" to describe [[Indian]] sruti intervals that were smaller than a semitone, to differentiate them from [[quarter tone]]s. | Sometime before 1900, composer [[Julián Carrillo|Julián Carrillo Trujillo]] performed experiments on a violin string, using a razor blade to achieve very precise intervals smaller than a [[semitone]], which he called "microtono." Over a decade later, the music theorist Maud MacCarthy Mann began using the term "microtone" to describe [[Indian]] sruti intervals that were smaller than a semitone, to differentiate them from [[quarter tone]]s. | ||
In the 1910's and 1920's, there was some discussion as to whether the term "microtone" was appropriate, or if competing terms, such as "heterotone" or "fraction-tone" etc., would be clearer. By the 1930's, with interest in American Blues music booming, and with people like [[Ivor Darreg]] becoming active with new tuning methods, many more terms were proposed, but the terms "microtonal" and "xenharmonic" were most prominent in the English language by the end of the decade. | In the 1910's and 1920's, there was some discussion as to whether the term "microtone" was appropriate, or if competing terms, such as "heterotone" or "fraction-tone" etc., would be clearer. By the 1930's, with interest in American Blues music booming, and with people like [[Ivor Darreg]] becoming active with new tuning methods, many more terms were proposed, but the terms "microtonal" and "xenharmonic" were most prominent in the English language by the end of the decade. | ||
See [[:Category:People|Category:People]] for a list of people involved in microtonality or xenharmonics. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||