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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">Literally, the **Microtone** is the one millionth part of the [[Tone]] (as defined by Aristoxenus in classic Greece [[http://www.tonalsoft.com/monzo/aristoxenus/aristoxenus.aspx|The measurement of Aristoxenus's Divisions of the Tetrachord]]).
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">The **Microtone** is an [[interval measure]] that is sufficiently precise for all thinkable musical and music-science purposes. Besides its high accuracy, it is of a very high neutrality since it favors neither twelve-tonality nor even the [[octave]].


On Microtone **µt** has a size of 2.0391e-4 [[Cent|Cents]].</pre></div>
One microtone (**1µt**) is defined as one millionth of the [[Tone]].
 
== The Microtone Challenge ==
A microtone is indeed a very small interval: 4904 microtones make one [[Cent|Cents]], and 5884949 an octave.
 
Two sounds differing by 1 µt produce a very slow beat; depending on the frequency one have to wait more or less to recocnize it. The beat frequency is
* at the upper limit of the hearing range (20 kHz) 7 minutes
* in the range of the highest acoustic sensibility (4 KHz) 35 minutes
* at the lower limit of the hearing range (16 Hz) 7 days
 
Given this, will it be ever possible to make a //microtone experience// at all?</pre></div>
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Microtone&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;Literally, the &lt;strong&gt;Microtone&lt;/strong&gt; is the one millionth part of the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Tone"&gt;Tone&lt;/a&gt; (as defined by Aristoxenus in classic Greece &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.tonalsoft.com/monzo/aristoxenus/aristoxenus.aspx" rel="nofollow"&gt;The measurement of Aristoxenus's Divisions of the Tetrachord&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;Microtone&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Microtone&lt;/strong&gt; is an &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/interval%20measure"&gt;interval measure&lt;/a&gt; that is sufficiently precise for all thinkable musical and music-science purposes. Besides its high accuracy, it is of a very high neutrality since it favors neither twelve-tonality nor even the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/octave"&gt;octave&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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One microtone (&lt;strong&gt;1µt&lt;/strong&gt;) is defined as one millionth of the &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Tone"&gt;Tone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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A microtone is indeed a very small interval: 4904 microtones make one &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Cent"&gt;Cents&lt;/a&gt;, and 5884949 an octave.&lt;br /&gt;
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On Microtone &lt;strong&gt;µt&lt;/strong&gt; has a size of 2.0391e-4 &lt;a class="wiki_link" href="/Cent"&gt;Cents&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>
Two sounds differing by 1 µt produce a very slow beat; depending on the frequency one have to wait more or less to recocnize it. The beat frequency is&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;at the upper limit of the hearing range (20 kHz) 7 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;in the range of the highest acoustic sensibility (4 KHz) 35 minutes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;at the lower limit of the hearing range (16 Hz) 7 days&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Given this, will it be ever possible to make a &lt;em&gt;microtone experience&lt;/em&gt; at all?&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</pre></div>
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