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What is microtonal music?= | =What is microtonal music?= | ||
While microtonal music may not be easy to define, most people know it when they hear it. | While microtonal music may not be easy to define, most people know it when they hear it. | ||
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While microtonal music may not be easy to define, most people know it when they hear it.<br /> | While microtonal music may not be easy to define, most people know it when they hear it.<br /> | ||
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We must take care (when defining microtonality) not to indulge in the vulgar delusion that the Western world represents the aesthetic center of the universe. By calling &quot;microtonal&quot; all that which is non-Western, we subtly marginalize all musical culture other than Euro-North American musical culture. Not only is this unjust and unreasonable, it's stupid and ignorant. As sales of world music continue to skyrocket, it becomes ever clearer to music lovers in Europe and North America that the Western music tradition represents only a tiny fraction of the world's musical panorama. Non-western music offers vast beauties and amazing musical treasures, but we ought not to try to pigeonhole it as something defined by its opposition to Euro-American culture...since, after all, Western music remains by far the minority usage throughout the world. After all, well over 80% of the world's indigenous musical cultures politely refuse to use western tertian triadic harmony, decline to adhere to the Western belief in the harmonic series as the alleged basis of music, and pointedly rebut any application of mathematics or theory to their music. Indeed, as Jon Appleton has pointed out, most musical cultures throughout the world feel no need to explain or theorize about their music. Thus, many of the practices we Westerners consider essential to our music are not even found in the musical cultures of most other societies throughout the earth.<br /> | We must take care (when defining microtonality) not to indulge in the vulgar delusion that the Western world represents the aesthetic center of the universe. By calling &quot;microtonal&quot; all that which is non-Western, we subtly marginalize all musical culture other than Euro-North American musical culture. Not only is this unjust and unreasonable, it's stupid and ignorant. As sales of world music continue to skyrocket, it becomes ever clearer to music lovers in Europe and North America that the Western music tradition represents only a tiny fraction of the world's musical panorama. Non-western music offers vast beauties and amazing musical treasures, but we ought not to try to pigeonhole it as something defined by its opposition to Euro-American culture...since, after all, Western music remains by far the minority usage throughout the world. After all, well over 80% of the world's indigenous musical cultures politely refuse to use western tertian triadic harmony, decline to adhere to the Western belief in the harmonic series as the alleged basis of music, and pointedly rebut any application of mathematics or theory to their music. Indeed, as Jon Appleton has pointed out, most musical cultures throughout the world feel no need to explain or theorize about their music. Thus, many of the practices we Westerners consider essential to our music are not even found in the musical cultures of most other societies throughout the earth.<br /> | ||
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Because of the slipperiness of the term &quot;microtonal,&quot; other terms have been deployed to describe this great big teeming mass of adventurously different-sounding music. One such term is <strong>&quot;macrotonal.&quot;</strong> Macrotonal music 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. The Javanese slendro tuning, with 5 unequal (but not justly tuned) pitches in a stretched octave, represents another example of a macrotonal tuning. Non-octave tunings like a Pythagorean JI tuning of 19 just perfect fifths in the 3:1 also presents us with an instance of a macrotonal tuning.<br /> | Because of the slipperiness of the term &quot;microtonal,&quot; other terms have been deployed to describe this great big teeming mass of adventurously different-sounding music. One such term is <strong>&quot;macrotonal.&quot;</strong> Macrotonal music 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. The Javanese slendro tuning, with 5 unequal (but not justly tuned) pitches in a stretched octave, represents another example of a macrotonal tuning. Non-octave tunings like a Pythagorean JI tuning of 19 just perfect fifths in the 3:1 also presents us with an instance of a macrotonal tuning.<br /> | ||
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Perhaps the most popular term other than &quot;microtonal&quot; is &quot;xenharmonic.&quot;<br /> | Perhaps the most popular term other than &quot;microtonal&quot; is &quot;xenharmonic.&quot;<br /> | ||
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<strong>Xenharmonic</strong> 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 /> | <strong>Xenharmonic</strong> 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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