User:Xenjacob/Academia

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Just as the practice and theory of microtonal music—that is, music made with conscious choices about the tuning and tuning systems used—have roots in obscurity and invisibility, so also are their fingerprints within the larger of institutions, including higher education.

This page is for collecting information and stories about the growing number of exceptions to and reversals of to that norm.

Microtonal artists working in academia

Within music departments

Lydia Ayers, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Reginald Bain, Professor, Composition and Theory; Director of the Experimental Computer Music Studio (xMUSE)

• Tuning Theory class

Bruce Hamilton, Professor in Theory, Electroacoustic Music, and Composition, Western Washington University

Ralph Lewis, Adjunct Instructor of Music Composition, Millikin University

Michael 'Atonal' Vick, Instructional Technologist for the Fine Arts, Furman University

• Course "Tuning Systems & the Aural Experience"
• Facilitated acquisition of the AFMM archive by Furman

Elaine Walker, various, archive documented on Elaine Walker's website

Academic press publications

Gann, Kyle. The Arithmetic of Listening: Tuning Theory and History for the Impractical Musician. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Narushima, Terumi. Microtonality and the Tuning Systems of Erv Wilson: Mapping the Harmonic Spectrum. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Journals concerned with microtonality

Interval, Journal of Music Research and Development

1/1: The Quarterly Journal of the Just Intonation Network

Xenharmonikôn

Pitch for the International Microtonalist