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When a piece of music is to be performed repeatedly the same way, or performed by people who weren't the originators of the piece, it helps to have a score. In the history of objectifying music, scores were the currency until they were displaced by recordings. There are many types of [[musical notation|microtonal notation]], such as [[Sagittal_notation#Scores in Sagittal notation|Sagittal notation]], [[color notation]] and [[ | When a piece of music is to be performed repeatedly the same way, or performed by people who weren't the originators of the piece, it helps to have a score. In the history of objectifying music, scores were the currency until they were displaced by recordings. There are many types of [[musical notation|microtonal notation]], such as [[Sagittal_notation#Scores in Sagittal notation|Sagittal notation]], [[color notation]] and [[Ups and downs notation|ups and downs notation]]. | ||
== Historically significant microtonal scores == | == Historically significant microtonal scores == | ||
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=== A === | === A === | ||
=== B === | === B === | ||
; [[Jacob Barton]] | ; [[Jacob Barton]] | ||
*''De-quinin''' for two Bb clarinets (one tuned 33¢ flat) | * ''De-quinin''' for two Bb clarinets (one tuned 33¢ flat) | ||
*''Moods'' for 3 keyboards | * ''Moods'' for 3 keyboards | ||
*''Kluh'' for 11 performers on 21 tuned bottles | * ''Kluh'' for 11 performers on 21 tuned bottles | ||
*''[[Eighty-one ninth chords]]'' for 2 pianos, [[17edo]] | * ''[[Eighty-one ninth chords]]'' for 2 pianos, [[17edo]] | ||
*''[[Land urchin]]'' for string band in 11-limit just intonation | * ''[[Land urchin]]'' for string band in 11-limit just intonation | ||
=== C === | === C === | ||
; David Canright | ; David Canright | ||
*''[http://home.comcast.net/~dcanright/suite/index.htm Fibonacci Suite]''{{dead link}} for piano retuned to 7-limit JI, seven hands | * ''[http://home.comcast.net/~dcanright/suite/index.htm Fibonacci Suite]''{{dead link}} for piano retuned to 7-limit JI, seven hands | ||
; [[William Copper]] | ; [[William Copper]] | ||
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* ''[https://williamcopper.com/compositions/elixir-of-love L'elisir d'amore]'' Opera using Intonalism, a form of Just Intonation | * ''[https://williamcopper.com/compositions/elixir-of-love L'elisir d'amore]'' Opera using Intonalism, a form of Just Intonation | ||
*''[https://williamcopper.com/recordings Ave Regina]'' A cappella choral work using Intonalism; on same page links to recordings of orchestral works using Intonalism. | * ''[https://williamcopper.com/recordings Ave Regina]'' A cappella choral work using Intonalism; on same page links to recordings of orchestral works using Intonalism. | ||
=== D === | === D === | ||
; [[Ivor Darreg]] | ; [[Ivor Darreg]] | ||
*[[:File:Ivor_Darreg,_Suite.pdf|''On the Enharmonic Tetrachord'' (from ''Suite'', Op. 62)]], in [[22edo]]. Originally printed in the Spring 1975 issue of [[Xenharmonikon]] in quarter-tone notation. Transcribed to Sagittal by [[Juhani Nuorvala]]. | * [[:File:Ivor_Darreg,_Suite.pdf|''On the Enharmonic Tetrachord'' (from ''Suite'', Op. 62)]], in [[22edo]]. Originally printed in the Spring 1975 issue of [[Xenharmonikon]] in quarter-tone notation. Transcribed to Sagittal by [[Juhani Nuorvala]]. | ||
; [[Bryan Deister]] | |||
* ''Bryan Deister microtonal improvisations transcribed (31edo to 50edo)''. Transcribed by [[Stephen Weigel]]. | |||
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljaSpsQP2qc watch the free video version (YouTube)] | |||
** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/bryan-deister-31-112681475 buy the printable PDF version (Patreon)] | |||
=== E === | === E === | ||
; [[Paul Erlich]] | ; [[Paul Erlich]] | ||
*''Tibia'' in [[22edo]]: [http://www.tallkite.com/words/Tibia.mp3 MP3] | (CORRECTED pdf scores) [[:File:Tibia in G CORRECTED-1.png|page 1]] | [[:File:Tibia in G CORRECTED-2.png|page 2]] | * ''Tibia'' in [[22edo]]: [http://www.tallkite.com/words/Tibia.mp3 MP3] | (CORRECTED pdf scores) [[:File:Tibia in G CORRECTED-1.png|page 1]] | [[:File:Tibia in G CORRECTED-2.png|page 2]] | ||
=== F === | === F === | ||
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; [[Kyle Gann]] | ; [[Kyle Gann]] | ||
Gann creates tuning guides for many of his pieces, list at the bottom of [http://www.kylegann.com/tuning.html this page]. | Gann creates tuning guides for many of his pieces, list at the bottom of [http://www.kylegann.com/tuning.html this page]. | ||
*''The Day Revisited'' for flute, clarinet, electric bass, 2 keyboards | * ''The Day Revisited'' for flute, clarinet, electric bass, 2 keyboards | ||
*''Charing Cross'' for keyboard and tape | * ''Charing Cross'' for keyboard and tape | ||
*''New Aunts'' for keyboard | * ''New Aunts'' for keyboard | ||
*''Triskaidekaphonia'' for keyboard | * ''Triskaidekaphonia'' for keyboard | ||
*''Fugitive Objects'' for keyboard | * ''Fugitive Objects'' for keyboard | ||
*''Custer and Sitting Bull'', "electronic cantata" | * ''Custer and Sitting Bull'', "electronic cantata" | ||
*''[http://www.kylegann.com/LoveScene.pdf Love Scene]'' for string quartet | * ''[http://www.kylegann.com/LoveScene.pdf Love Scene]'' for string quartet | ||
; [[Kite Giedraitis]] (Tall Kite) | ; [[Kite Giedraitis]] (Tall Kite) | ||
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=== H === | === H === | ||
; [[Robert Hasegawa]] | ; [[Robert Hasegawa]] | ||
*''Spiral'' for chamber ensemble | * ''Spiral'' for chamber ensemble | ||
*''Chaconne for James Tenney'' for chamber ensemble (JI/[[96edo]]) | * ''Chaconne for James Tenney'' for chamber ensemble (JI/[[96edo]]) | ||
*''Due Corde'' for 2 pianos, [[19edo]] | * ''Due Corde'' for 2 pianos, [[19edo]] | ||
; [[Andrew Heathwaite]] | ; [[Andrew Heathwaite]] | ||
*''[[Clouds_(Andrew_Heathwaite)|Clouds]]'', [[72edo]] | * ''[[Clouds_(Andrew_Heathwaite)|Clouds]]'', [[72edo]] | ||
*''[[Prayer of Thanks]]'', 7-limit just intonation | * ''[[Prayer of Thanks]]'', 7-limit just intonation | ||
=== I === | === I === | ||
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=== K === | === K === | ||
; [http://www.handmaderecords.com/ Paul Kotheimer] | ; [http://www.handmaderecords.com/ Paul Kotheimer] | ||
*''Goes to Eleven'' (2009) for ensemble, 11-limit JI | * ''Goes to Eleven'' (2009) for ensemble, 11-limit JI | ||
*''Three Short Poems'' (2008) for voices and drones, 5- and 7-limit JI | * ''Three Short Poems'' (2008) for voices and drones, 5- and 7-limit JI | ||
*''Mercy'' (2008) for voice and drone (and udderbot), 13-limit JI | * ''Mercy'' (2008) for voice and drone (and udderbot), 13-limit JI | ||
=== L === | === L === | ||
; [[L4MPLIGHT]] | |||
* [[Stephen Weigel]]’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMIWHouXSg animated transcription of L4MPLIGHT’s introductory composition] (YouTube). | |||
=== M === | === M === | ||
; [[Herman Miller]] | |||
* ''[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rjyC9fRXKwRqpdsGEj3a3JHeJeWkdVWZ/view?usp=drive_link Luck of the Draw]'' - (tuning: [[37edo]] • year: 2023 • background: for the [[Monthly Tunings]] challenge) | |||
** [https://soundcloud.com/morphosyntax-1/luck-of-the-draw (audio recording)] | |||
=== N === | === N === | ||
=== O === | === O === | ||
; Mats Öljare | ; [[Mats Öljare]] | ||
*''[[:File:sunday3.pdf|Sunday Pipes]]'', [[22edo]] | * ''[[:File:sunday3.pdf|Sunday Pipes]]'', [[22edo]] | ||
=== P === | === P === | ||
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=== R === | === R === | ||
; [[Dante Rosati]] | ; [[Dante Rosati]] | ||
*''Arbor Low'' for 21-tone Just Intonation guitar | * ''Arbor Low'' for 21-tone Just Intonation guitar | ||
=== S === | === S === | ||
; Thomas Edwin Scheurich III | ; [[Thomas Scheurich|Thomas Edwin Scheurich III]] | ||
*''Three Lonely, Uninspired Ways to Play in 17tet'' (2006) for 2 pianos | * ''Three Lonely, Uninspired Ways to Play in 17tet'' (2006) for 2 pianos | ||
*''Attention! Attention! Attention!'' (2007) for 17-tone ensemble (soprano, udderbot, slide whistles, violin, viola, cello, pianos, laptop, percussion) | * ''Attention! Attention! Attention!'' (2007) for 17-tone ensemble (soprano, udderbot, slide whistles, violin, viola, cello, pianos, laptop, percussion) | ||
*''Story Worth Telling'' (2008) chamber operetta in [[17edo]] | * ''Story Worth Telling'' (2008) chamber operetta in [[17edo]] | ||
*''Xenharmonic Curiosities II'' (2009) for voices and viola | * ''Xenharmonic Curiosities II'' (2009) for voices and viola | ||
; [[Rosie Sheldon]] | |||
* [https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/1382604/Product.aspx ''Microtonal Composition in "Fluid Just Intonation"''] (2021) | |||
; Ryan Stickney | ; Ryan Stickney | ||
*''[http://oneforall.ytmnd.com One for All]'' | * ''[http://oneforall.ytmnd.com One for All]'' | ||
; [[Hans Straub]] | ; [[Hans Straub]] | ||
*''[http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/Sharks_2008-05-27.pdf Sharks]''{{dead link}} (2008) for 17-tone pianos | * ''[http://homepage.hispeed.ch/hsstraub/musik/Sharks_2008-05-27.pdf Sharks]''{{dead link}} (2008) for 17-tone pianos | ||
=== T === | === T === | ||
; [http://www.tuistgeorgetucker.com/scores1.html Tui St. George Tucker]{{dead link}} | ; [http://www.tuistgeorgetucker.com/scores1.html Tui St. George Tucker]{{dead link}} | ||
*''Three Quartertone Lullabies'' for wind trios | * ''Three Quartertone Lullabies'' for wind trios | ||
*''Vigil I'' and ''Vigil II'' for organ | * ''Vigil I'' and ''Vigil II'' for organ | ||
*''Little pieces'' for quartertone piano | * ''Little pieces'' for quartertone piano | ||
*''Sarabande'' for quartertone harpsichord | * ''Sarabande'' for quartertone harpsichord | ||
=== U === | === U === | ||
=== V === | === V === | ||
; [[Chris Vaisvil]] | ; [[Chris Vaisvil]] | ||
*''[http://micro.soonlabel.com/centaur_tuning/Prelude_For_Centaur_Tuned_Piano.pdf Prelude for Centaur Tuned Piano]'' | * ''[http://micro.soonlabel.com/centaur_tuning/Prelude_For_Centaur_Tuned_Piano.pdf Prelude for Centaur Tuned Piano]'' | ||
*''[http://micro.soonlabel.com/65cET_37ed4/slumber_of_thought/Slumber%20of%20Thought-20120513.pdf Slumber of Thought]'' (for 65cent equal temperament tuned piano) | * ''[http://micro.soonlabel.com/65cET_37ed4/slumber_of_thought/Slumber%20of%20Thought-20120513.pdf Slumber of Thought]'' (for 65cent equal temperament tuned piano) | ||
=== W === | === W === | ||
; [[Stephen Weigel]] | ; [[Stephen Weigel]] | ||
*[https://xenharmonicgod.bandcamp.com/album/six-macrotonal-etudes-for-electronic-music-media Six Macrotonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media (compared to Easley Blackwood's - Half the Tunings, Double the Fun!)] | * [https://xenharmonicgod.bandcamp.com/album/six-macrotonal-etudes-for-electronic-music-media Six Macrotonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media (compared to Easley Blackwood's - Half the Tunings, Double the Fun!)] | ||
; [[Daniel Wolf]] | ; [[Daniel Wolf]] | ||
*''Etudes'' for solo microtonal instruments in equal tunings 8-23 | * ''Etudes'' for solo microtonal instruments in equal tunings 8-23 | ||
*''Figure and Ground'' for string trio | * ''Figure and Ground'' for string trio | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:09, 20 August 2025
When a piece of music is to be performed repeatedly the same way, or performed by people who weren't the originators of the piece, it helps to have a score. In the history of objectifying music, scores were the currency until they were displaced by recordings. There are many types of microtonal notation, such as Sagittal notation, color notation and ups and downs notation.
Historically significant microtonal scores
Check your local gigantic university library. If they don't have it, they could probably be persuaded to get it.
- Charles Ives's Three Quarter Tone Pieces (1923-1924)
- Harry Partch, all works
- Ben Johnston, esp. string quartets
- Alois Hába, esp. string quartets
- Ivan Wyschnegradsky, all microtonal works
- Easley Blackwood, esp. Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, op. 28
- publishings of Diapason Press
- this list is so obviously incomplete that you should help finish it.
Links to microtonal scores, by composer
Please contribute to this list of scores that are available (i.e. downloadable). This is meant as a resource for performers interested in microtonal music. Feel free to make wiki pages for "notable" compositions; the wiki supports file attachments up to 10 MB each.
A
B
- De-quinin' for two Bb clarinets (one tuned 33¢ flat)
- Moods for 3 keyboards
- Kluh for 11 performers on 21 tuned bottles
- Eighty-one ninth chords for 2 pianos, 17edo
- Land urchin for string band in 11-limit just intonation
C
- David Canright
- Fibonacci Suite[dead link] for piano retuned to 7-limit JI, seven hands
- L'elisir d'amore Opera using Intonalism, a form of Just Intonation
- Ave Regina A cappella choral work using Intonalism; on same page links to recordings of orchestral works using Intonalism.
D
- On the Enharmonic Tetrachord (from Suite, Op. 62), in 22edo. Originally printed in the Spring 1975 issue of Xenharmonikon in quarter-tone notation. Transcribed to Sagittal by Juhani Nuorvala.
- Bryan Deister microtonal improvisations transcribed (31edo to 50edo). Transcribed by Stephen Weigel.
E
F
G
Gann creates tuning guides for many of his pieces, list at the bottom of this page.
- The Day Revisited for flute, clarinet, electric bass, 2 keyboards
- Charing Cross for keyboard and tape
- New Aunts for keyboard
- Triskaidekaphonia for keyboard
- Fugitive Objects for keyboard
- Custer and Sitting Bull, "electronic cantata"
- Love Scene for string quartet
- Kite Giedraitis (Tall Kite)
- Evening Rondo (2021) for solo Kite guitar, 41edo
- Downminor Nocturne (2021) for Kite guitar duet, 41edo
- Without You (2016) for piano/bass/drums/vocal, 7-limit JI
- I Hear Numbers (2016) for synth/keys/guitar/bass/drums/congas/vocals, 7-limit JI
H
- Spiral for chamber ensemble
- Chaconne for James Tenney for chamber ensemble (JI/96edo)
- Due Corde for 2 pianos, 19edo
- Clouds, 72edo
- Prayer of Thanks, 7-limit just intonation
I
J
K
- Goes to Eleven (2009) for ensemble, 11-limit JI
- Three Short Poems (2008) for voices and drones, 5- and 7-limit JI
- Mercy (2008) for voice and drone (and udderbot), 13-limit JI
L
M
- Luck of the Draw - (tuning: 37edo • year: 2023 • background: for the Monthly Tunings challenge)
N
O
P
Q
R
- Arbor Low for 21-tone Just Intonation guitar
S
- Three Lonely, Uninspired Ways to Play in 17tet (2006) for 2 pianos
- Attention! Attention! Attention! (2007) for 17-tone ensemble (soprano, udderbot, slide whistles, violin, viola, cello, pianos, laptop, percussion)
- Story Worth Telling (2008) chamber operetta in 17edo
- Xenharmonic Curiosities II (2009) for voices and viola
- Ryan Stickney
T
- Three Quartertone Lullabies for wind trios
- Vigil I and Vigil II for organ
- Little pieces for quartertone piano
- Sarabande for quartertone harpsichord
U
V
- Prelude for Centaur Tuned Piano
- Slumber of Thought (for 65cent equal temperament tuned piano)
W
- Etudes for solo microtonal instruments in equal tunings 8-23
- Figure and Ground for string trio