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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)
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
Within other departments
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