Microtonal music
Microtonal music is music that includes intervals outside of those from the customary Western tuning of twelve equal divisions of the octave (12edo). The boundaries of microtonal music are fuzzy for various reasons, namely cultural context and psychoacoustic effects.
Terminology
Several terms have been proposed with more or less similar definitions. A notable example is "xenharmonic music", coined by Ivor Darreg, which describes music that sounds significantly different from 12edo.
See also
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- What is microtonal music
- Why Microtonality?
- A recovering microtonalist's critical reaction to Why Microtonality
- Microtonalists critical reaction to a recovering microtonalists critical reaction to Why Microtonaltiy?
- Why microtonality
- Whynotmicrotonality
- Whynotnotmicrotonality
- Whynotnot by Carlos Augusto Scalassara Prando
- Microtone
- Microtonal
- Mesotonal
- Approaches to musical tuning
External links
- What is microtonal music? What is xenharmonic music by Margo Schulter, on UnTwelve's website