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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">== What is microtonal music? == | <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">==What is microtonal music?== | ||
Microtonal music makes use of intervals smaller than the smallest common interval in Western music theory, the half step (semitone). In Western music theory, the semitone is of a fixed size, exactly one-twelfth of an octave. | Microtonal music makes use of intervals smaller than the smallest common interval in Western music theory, the half step (semitone). In Western music theory, the semitone is of a fixed size, exactly one-twelfth of an octave. | ||
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Macrotonal music, on the other hand, only uses intervals which are larger than the semitone (but not necessarily multiples of it). Dividing the octave eight equal ways, for example, is a macrotonal tuning. | Macrotonal music, on the other hand, only uses intervals which are larger than the semitone (but not necessarily multiples of it). Dividing the octave eight equal ways, for example, is a macrotonal tuning. | ||
== What is xenharmonic music? == | ==What is xenharmonic music?== | ||
Xenharmonic is a term coined by the late Ivor Darreg, from Greek //xenos// "strange, foreign" + //harmonikos// "sound, harmonic" to classify music in tunings that are definitely aurally distinct from the typical twelve tone equal tuning.</pre></div> | Xenharmonic is a term coined by the late Ivor Darreg, from Greek //xenos// "strange, foreign" + //harmonikos// "sound, harmonic" to classify music in tunings that are definitely aurally distinct from the typical twelve tone equal tuning. | ||
Unfortunately, "microtonal" implies that you're using tiny intervals when you may not be, and "xenharmonic" is so...negative. Ivor also suggested "neoteric" which doesn't really carry any meaning but "new"...</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"><html><head><title>DefineMicrotonal</title></head><body><!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:&lt;h2&gt; --><h2 id="toc0"><a name="x-What is microtonal music?"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 --> What is microtonal music? </h2> | <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"><html><head><title>DefineMicrotonal</title></head><body><!-- ws:start:WikiTextHeadingRule:0:&lt;h2&gt; --><h2 id="toc0"><a name="x-What is microtonal music?"></a><!-- ws:end:WikiTextHeadingRule:0 -->What is microtonal music?</h2> | ||
Microtonal music makes use of intervals smaller than the smallest common interval in Western music theory, the half step (semitone). In Western music theory, the semitone is of a fixed size, exactly one-twelfth of an octave.<br /> | Microtonal music makes use of intervals smaller than the smallest common interval in Western music theory, the half step (semitone). In Western music theory, the semitone is of a fixed size, exactly one-twelfth of an octave.<br /> | ||
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Macrotonal music, on the other hand, only uses intervals which are larger than the semitone (but not necessarily multiples of it). Dividing the octave eight equal ways, for example, is a macrotonal tuning.<br /> | Macrotonal music, on the other hand, only uses intervals which are larger than the semitone (but not necessarily multiples of it). Dividing the octave eight equal ways, for example, is a macrotonal tuning.<br /> | ||
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Xenharmonic is a term coined by the late Ivor Darreg, from Greek <em>xenos</em> &quot;strange, foreign&quot; + <em>harmonikos</em> &quot;sound, harmonic&quot; to classify music in tunings that are definitely aurally distinct from the typical twelve tone equal tuning.</body></html></pre></div> | Xenharmonic is a term coined by the late Ivor Darreg, from Greek <em>xenos</em> &quot;strange, foreign&quot; + <em>harmonikos</em> &quot;sound, harmonic&quot; to classify music in tunings that are definitely aurally distinct from the typical twelve tone equal tuning.<br /> | ||
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Unfortunately, &quot;microtonal&quot; implies that you're using tiny intervals when you may not be, and &quot;xenharmonic&quot; is so...negative. Ivor also suggested &quot;neoteric&quot; which doesn't really carry any meaning but &quot;new&quot;...</body></html></pre></div> | |||