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| | Quarter tone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A quarter tone is an interval half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which is half a whole tone. | | | Many composers are known for having written music including quarter tones or the quarter tone scale, first proposed by Mikhá'il Mishdgah (Touma 1996, p.16), including: | | | Many musical genres and cultures use quarter tones, three-quarter tones, or the quarter tone scale, including: |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarter_tone
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| | Arab tone system |
| | In practice far fewer than twenty-four tones are used in a single performance. | | | (Touma 1996, p.17-18) However, from these twenty-four tones seven are selected to produce a scale and thus the interval of a quarter tone is never used and the three-quarter tone or | | | (ibid, p.18) Actual practice is estimated to vary within a quarter tone from notation. |
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http://www.mp3.fm/Arab_tone_system.htm
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| | Essay by Keiko Hatanaka |
| | The quarter tone he pursued for his music existed not on the extended sound generated from the middle point between, for example, the tones ‘mi’ and ‘fa’, but always somewhere on the way to the next destination, after leaving such a tone and becoming independent. | | | However, in his case, he tried to regain self coordination which could never be achieved if he were removed from music, by tenaciously tracing a single warp that is the harmonic overtones which have been discretely woven into the textile of the traditional sounds, namely, occidental music which became disentangled right before his eyes. | | | Another distinctive characteristic of Scelsi's music is the multiple application of the quarter tone. |
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http://www4.ocn.ne.jp/~taraga/english/essay.html
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| | 1 Tone Equal Temperament - |
| | tone equal temperament (though not in the strictest of senses, as in the string quartet the violins take the 1/1 as... | | | The musical scale 72 tone equal temperament accesses just intervals up to the 17-limit yet includes 12 tone equal temperament. | | | A quarter tone is an interval half as wide as a semitone, which is half a...Find thousands of free online definitions and reference guides at TheFreeDictionary.com. |
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http://tone.fmqg.com/index.php?k=1-tone-equal-temperament
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| | What Are Makams? |
| | These tones are easily visible on any piano or fretted guitar. | | | By the time of J.S. Bach, Western classical music had developed into a system of tuning known as equal temperament, where the musical octave is divided into 12 equally spaced half-tones. | | | In Turkish classical music, whole-tones and half-tones are approximately the same size as Western whole-tones and half-tones, and function the same way within the scale. |
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http://www.hinesmusic.com/What_Are_Makams.html
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| | Quarter Tone - Musician Forums |
| | A semitone is the smallest interval used in western music and a quater tone is half a semitone | | | The distance (sound-wise) between each fret on a guitar is a semitone, a quarter tone is half of that distance. | | | You can hear something similar in the song "Echo" by Incubus about 1:40 in to it. |
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http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182136
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| | Temperament |
| | The pattern of intervals in the new scale is exactly the same as that in the old (tone, tone, semitone; tone; tone, tone semitone) so this is not a different mode, it is a different key, the same mode but from a different starting note. | | | One approach to mean tone temperament on keyboards with only one set of black note keys is to pick and mix members of both the ascending and descending series so as to obtain the most even semitone steps, Db, Eb, F#, G# A#. | | | They all differ by the same amount, almost quarter of a tone. |
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http://www.midicode.com/tunings/temperament.shtml
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| | Some 24 tone piano pieces have been performed using two pianos and two piano players. | | | There is the problem of how to play 24 tone music on traditional instruments. | | | Some guitar builders have built guitars with frets in-between the standard frets to add the quarter tones. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~rwkeating/qtone.htm
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| | Jemsite - Quarter tone frets - Finally finished the project! Read... |
| | Finally, i've been able to complete what i wanted to do for a long time-adding quarter tone frets to a guitar. | | | There was a lot of melodies to be found in the different modes that i sort of created while playing with it. | | | In fact in a way it was like getting a totally new ear for music right away!Some of the leading tones have a kind of chiming, powerful sound thats hard to describe. |
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http://www.jemsite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8051
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| | Ivan Vïshnegradsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Greatly influenced by Scriabin as a young man, Vïshnegradsky had a mystical vision which made him feel compelled to write music in intervals of less than a half-step. | | | Vïshnegradsky wrote a considerable amount of music for two pianos tuned a quarter-tone apart (including the Concert Etudes Op. | | | 49) and also several pieces for three pianos tuned a sixth of a tone apart (Prélude et Fugue Op. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Wyschnegradsky
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| | The Arabic Maqam |
| | The phenomenon that greatly influenced intonation in Arabic music was the introduction of even-tempered instruments (some of which were altered to produce quarter tones), mostly in the second half of the 20th century. | | | With time, the original tuning of maqam Hijaz had been lost except in a handful of new recordings, and was replaced with what is called “piano Hijaz” (a derogatory term.) Equally bad is the “piano Ajam”, where the 3rd note should be slightly lower and more mellow. | | | A prime example are the 2nd and 3rd notes in the Hijaz tetrachord, which are played closer together so as to shrink the 1½ tone interval. |
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http://www.maqamworld.com/maqamat.html
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| | Masking by the Numbers |
| | that lie between the shadows and the middle tones. | | | The shadow layer used an overlay blend at 100% opacity, which deepened the shadows. | | | A second curve for isolating middle tones appears in Figure 6b. |
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http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/masking.shtml
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| | NWCForum - Microtones |
| | They pragmatically divide the tone into four "strict" quartertones and use a special flat and a special sharp for the interval (I'll include the notation in the article as well as in the font). | | | Turkish tone system consists of 17 intervals and those are produced by 33 harmonics. | | | Ivan Wychnegradsky (Russian composer, later emigrated to France, pupil of Scriabin) got the 24 tone scale by tuning a piano a quarter tone lower and using it together the "normal" one. |
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http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwcforum/1952.htm
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| | Many times a certain tone in a melody is intentionally played quite sharp or flat for a heightened artistic effect. | | | Properly sung, quartertone melodies can be profoundly affecting. | | | Tuners sometimes even exceed this ability to distinguish 600 tones per octave, because they can listen to the |
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http://sonic-arts.org/darreg/DAR2.HTM
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| | Newspapers & Technology |
| | Midtone contrast and detail is increased, and although highlight and shadow details are compressed, they are not lost entirely. | | | Because highlight details are virtually absent, compressing this area is not a problem. | | | Black and dark shadows are eliminated, resulting in a smaller tonal range. |
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http://www.newsandtech.com/issues/2001/09-01/pt/09-01_monaco.htm
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| | NewMusicBox |
| | Each of these divisions has certain acoustical features in its favor; the more divisions, the more acoustical accuracy and the less convenience of notation and performance. | | | The Arditti Quartet has supposedly made a recording of Wyschnegradsky's string quartets that was released in Europe, but I've never found it. | | | His Preludio a Cristobal Colon, published in Henry Cowell's New Music Edition, is written for an ensemble in his special notation. |
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http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=17tp02
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| | quarter tone fingerings for sax |
| | Just wondering if anyone would have some fingerings for quarter tones on alto saxophone. |
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http://www.wfg.woodwind.org/BBoard/read.html?id=401
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| | MicroFest 2001 Conference Abstracts |
| | All students improved with exposure to these unfamiliar scales, however, and showed a marked tendency to form mental representations of all tunings using unequally spaced musical intervals (even in the case of the western chromatic 12-tone equal scale). | | | Results show a slight strengthening of the difference tone with overtone ratios but point to a an almost prohibitive conditionality of production and show a need for proper context and support from other musical variables. | | | of Léonin), with the succession of fundamental tones analogous to the long-breathed chant melody in the tenor, and more complex concurrent events analogous to the comparatively florid duplum. |
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http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/microfestabstracts.html
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| | More specificly, these tones are 1700 hz and 2200 hz sounded together. | | | If they are distorted, you need to play the tones quieter while recording. | | | Make sure to read the instruction sheet included with it so that you know how to use it, and all that's really left to do is record the tone. |
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http://www.textfiles.com/magazines/411/411-12.txt
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| | UCSB Special Collections - Mildred Couper Papers |
| | Couper's music is still protected by copyright and the presence of these items on the web does not absolve the user of the responsibility to secure permission for performances, recordings or other uses of these items beyond the purposes of research and study. | | | Xanadu, for two pianos tuned a quarter tone apart, ca. |
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http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/pa/pamss45.html
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| | Making a Red Box out of a Tone Dialer |
| | Using a Radio Shack Tone Dialer is by far the most popular method of building a red box in the 90's. | | | Remove the 6 screws securing the back of the Tone Dialer to the front. | | | The following article was written by DeadKat of CoTNo and is, in my opinion, the best ever variation of the original tone dialer design. |
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http://www.phonelosers.org/redboxtonedial.html
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| | List of microtonal music on CD |
| | 12 bis (1923) for violin in 1/4, 1/6 & 1/8 tones and two pianos in 1/4 tones. | | | The instrumental ensemble is comprised of leading European musicians and additionally uses pianos in quarter- and sixteenth tones, electric guitar, viola d'amore, harp, percussion, celli and magnetic tape. | | | Xenharmonic is a term invented by Ivor Darreg for musical phenomena that sound different from having 12 tones in an octave, and derives from the Greek xenos = strange, foreign. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/doc/discs.html
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| | Thus, if the sound volume is set right on the computer when playing the tones, they will not be distorted while recording. | | | As a result, when one tries to record the tones onto a tape, they will become too distorted and will no longer work. | | | If only the construction of a Red Box could be as simple as using a mini-tape recorder to record the tones off of your SB. |
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http://web.textfiles.com/hacking/redbox.010.01
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| | Interview for 10 year Jubilee |
| | Particularly effective are the suggestive solo pieces performed on the revolutionary quarter tone flute. | | | And also the other two solo pieces recorded in the well of Montefiore castle in Italy are brilliant, not only because of the breathtaking acoustic but also because of Peter's clear and intelligent musicality. | | | Although this Dutch invention has been used in modern classical recordings, this is the first jazz recording to be made on this type of flute. |
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http://members.chello.nl/p.guidi/reviewsff.htm
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| | Layalimusic.com - The Official Site Of Kareem Roustom and El-Zafeer Ensemble |
| | This site is the home of the El-Zafeer Ensemble, a group that fuses the lush, ecstatic tones and driving rhythms of Arabic music with the bright hued colors of jazz. | | | You can listen to music from the new El-Zafeer Ensemble release 'Almitra's Question' and you can purchase a copy here. |
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http://www.layalimusic.com
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| | Stichting Huygens-Fokker: Ivan Wyschnegradsky |
| | Soon he came to the conclusion that the semitone system uses the possible musical tonespace in only a very limited way, and that a more detailed filling-in of this tone space was a primary musical need for him. | | | With this notion he meant a complete sound, the sound of an infinite number of tones, sounding simultaneously in an infinite sound continuum. | | | For practical reasons Wyschnegradsky chose the 24-tone system (quarter-tone system) to work with. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/english/wyschnegradsky.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Quarter Tone |
| | Quarter Tone, in music, an interval, half that of a semitone. | | | Tone, in music, sound that has a definite pitch, as distinct from noise, which is sound that lacks identifiable pitch. | | | Search for books about your topic, "Quarter Tone" |
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| | Similar systems are often encountered in Eastern music, especially Indian (22 tones/octave) and Arabian (generally 18 tones/octave - actually closer to a 1/3-tone). | | | Most Western music and instruments follow a 12 tones/octave (see semitone) system. | | | One-fourth of a whole tone; 24 tones per octave. |
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http://www.mus1171.neu.edu/glossary/TERMS/QuarterTone.htm
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| | eufonia - hans andré stamm - komponist und orgel virtuose |
| | The singing of quarter tones shows to be very difficult even to professional singers and a very good choir like the "Capella Piccola" (conductor: Thomas Reuber). | | | The passage leading to the choir part also contains a sort of quarter tone chromatism. | | | This derives from the fact, that the quarter tone is not yet felt as a "discrete" interval, but as a result of intonation correction or as a ornamental motive. |
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http://www.eufonia.de/english/komposition.php
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| | Alois Haba - Czech Contemporary Composer |
| | Haba does not see these microtones of his as new interval values but as alterations in scale and non-scale intervals of the half-tone system by which he wishes only to emphasise the content aspect of his music. | | | Haba is so far the only composer to have written microtonal compositions on a melodic-harmonic base, in all forms of modern music and for the most varied instrumental and vocal content. | | | For this he used on the one hand traditional instruments, but he also proposed new instruments - quarter-tone pianos, the quarter-tone harmonium, quarter-tone clarinets, quarter- tone trumpets, the sixth-tone harmonium, which were manufactured by Czech and German firms of instrument- makers. |
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| | The second quarter is then an upper neighbor to the tone which forms the dissonant suspension, and the line continues downward to the resolution. | | | This rule insures that no measure contains an isolated rhythmic group which would impede the flow of melody. | | | (1) Second quarter is consonant with the CF and fourth-quarter resolution tone of the CP. |
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http://www.minotaurz.com/minotaur/edu/CPT_species/species_V.html
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| | Michael Foods Debtholders Conference Call |
| | Clearly, it was a quarter of contrasting returns, depending upon what part of our egg products business you look at. | | | The star performer was precooked items, where a 29% increase in volume was recorded. | | | Losses were recorded in this sector versus major levels of profitability in 2004's first quarter. |
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| | MusicaBona CD Alois Haba: Suite for Quarter-tone Piano No. 6, Op.88 |
| | His most significant innovative contribution to European music is his reworking of the tonal system into quarter, six, twelve, and five tone systems, which come from the Moravian folk tradition. | | | His many instrumental works consist of sonatas and suites for various instruments written in different systems, 13 quartets, a concerto for viola and violin, etc.. | | | Included in his vast body of works is the excellent quarter-tone opera Matka (Mother) and the fantasy symphony Cesta zivota (Road of Life), also written using the quarter-tone system. |
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http://www.musicabona.com/haba/5364/cd/index.html.en
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| | ETHNOMUSICOLOGY |
| | They were almost never employed here because of that great difficulty in determining by ear whether the difference is exactly a quarter tone or only approximately. | | | Obviously these arrows and comparable symbols used by others are signs of approximate value, and are, perhaps, the only practical means to be used concerning pitch deviations in Eastern European folk music." [p. | | | In many cases, especially in melodies with typical tone deviations of degree, such measurements would give highly interesting and mathematically exact data about the deviations, as well as about their constancy. |
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http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfaah/emancipation/ethnomusicology.htm
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| | Microtonal Guitar Gallery |
| | This is a sixth-tone guitar neck. It has 2 frets between each of the original frets. The intervals between the frets are 33.3 cents. It sounds great with tone rows because almost every note is dissonant with every other note. More about this instrument. | | | The frets represent Just Intonation intervals so each string acts like a tonic of it's own scale. Tuning the strings differently yields a variety of tone palettes. | | | This is Jon Catler's 12-Tone Plus neck design. It maintains the traditional 12 tone equal tempered frets but adds extra frets which yield a true dominant seventh, a neutral third, and several other intervals. |
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http://www.organicdesign.org/peterson/guitars
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| | INKPOT#91 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: MESSIAEN/IVES/ZEELAND Music for Two Pianos. Piano Duo (Channel Classics) |
| | With Visions, the first fruits of partnership between Messiaen and Loriod were sown; and thus begun the composer's association with the piano in most of his large-scale works. | | | The final Chorale movement was carefully constructed to give full-rein to manifold quarter-toned possibilities in both pianos: it simply takes as its harmonic basis a primary and a secondary chord, and each instrument works through a myriad of splintered-tones in various chordal formations. | | | Bartók made generous use of quarter-tones and other microtone intervals (borrowed from gypsy and Balkan cultures) in his scores; and Czech composer Alois Hába even invented an array of new instruments to produce fragmented tones. |
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http://inkpot.com/classical/pfduochnl.html
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| | List of quarter tone pieces - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | L'Évangelie Rouge, cycle for voice and 2 pianos in quarter tones(2nd version), Op. | | | Chants sur Nietzsche (2), for baritone and 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. | | | À Richard Wagner, for baritone and 2 pianos in quarter tones, Op. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quarter_tone_pieces
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| | Dolmetsch Online - Music Dictionary Ar - Az |
| | However, from these twenty-four notes seven are selected to produce a scale and thus the interval of a quarter tone is never used and the three-quarter tone or 'medium second' should be considered the characteristic interval | | | These are essential to appreciation of music and contribute to our understanding speech. | | | the modern Arab tone system, or system of musical tuning, is based upon the theoretical division of the octave into twenty-four equal divisions or 24-tone equal temperament, the distance between each successive note being a quarter tone (50 cents). |
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http://www.dolmetsch.com/defsa3.htm
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| | FINGMICR |
| | The "+" sign indicates 1/4 of a whole step sharper. | | | The "^" sign indicates 1/5 of a whole step sharper. | | | In this 31-tone scale B2 is 1/5 whole step lower than Cb3; C#3 is 1/5 whole tone lower than Db3, and D#3 is 1/5 step lower than Eb3. |
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http://idrs.colorado.edu/bsnfing/fingmicr.htm
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| | NWCForum - quarter tone |
| | They can be found on the Noteworthy Scriptorium (a user based archive of many things NWC). | | | I like to know that if i can play back a quater tone flat or sharp using N.W composer shareware version | | | It can be done using pitch bends, but it is not easy. |
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http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/nwcforum/1281.htm
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| | A neutral 3rd interval is equal to one and three-quarter tones. | | | signifies a half-flat, a quarter-tone flatter than the natural tone. | | | signifies a half-sharp, a quarter-tone sharper than the natural tone. |
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http://www.rev.net/~aloe/music/19807221.html
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| | Yeni Makam Series |
| | Tempered half-tones measured at 100 cents and whole-tones at 200 cents are equivalent to their respective Turkish tones of 90 and 204 cents.) The fundamental "small interval," the eighth-tone, is added to or subtracted from whole and half-tones to form new pitches. | | | Quarter-tones are sometimes referred to as neutral tones. | | | It has a distinct quality which simultaneously is characteristic of both surrounding half-tones, yet is neither half-tone. |
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| | Quarter - definition of Quarter in General |
| | They mean this night in Sardis to be quartered. | | | He magnified his own clemency, now they were at his mercy, to offer them quarter for their lives. | | | Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term. |
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http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/Quarter
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| | Tonalsoft Encyclopaedia of Tuning -- chronological list of works of Alois Hába, (c)1999 by Joe Monzo |
| | He also wrote several theoretical articles on microtonality, athematicism, and church modes at this time. | | | In 1925 he wrote his major theoretical work and translated and published it in German, Neue Harmonielehre des diatonischen, chromatischen, viertel-, drittel-, sechstel-, und zwöftel-tonsystems ['New harmony-textbook of the diatonic, chromatic (12-ET), quarter- (24-ET), third- (18-ET), sixth- (36-ET), and twelfth-tone (72-ET) systems']. |
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| | Merriam-Webster Online |
| | 1 : vocal or musical sound of a specific quality tones> tones>; especially : musical sound with respect to timbre and manner of expression | | | b : general character, quality, or trend tone> c : frame of mind : | | | 5 : a particular pitch or change of pitch constituting an element in the intonation of a phrase or sentence tone> tone> tone> tone> tone> |
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http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=tone
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| | This is an improvised solo piece based on the traditional blues form utilising the quarter tones to make the blue notes even bluer. | | | The improvisation begins with breathy air tones and includes many modern flute techniques, from jet whistles to multiphonics and vocalising in harmony with the flute. | | | 'Adem' is Dutch for breath and 'Eva' is a reference to Eva Kingma inventor and maker of the Kingma system quarter tone flute on which this piece is performed. |
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http://members.ams.chello.nl/p.guidi/adem.html
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| | God Bless America |
| | Convert "musical bars" to time (seconds), depending on metronome markings, if given; and formulate how much time is given to each state. | | | Quarter tone ranges We wanted a one semi-tone (two quarter tone) Undulating Tonal Horizon (UTH) range for the least densely populated state, and a one octave (twenty-four quarter tone) UTH range for the most dense state. | | | Ex: at such-and-such metronome marking, Delaware gets 12 bars of 4/4 and 3 quarter notes worth of its song. |
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http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tlindsey/gba.html
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| | Quarter Tones |
| | If you don't know Don's playing you must get a few CD's and listen. | | | He had composed a piece for a player who had a quarter tone trumpet. | | | If you had a sharp note like a C# that you wanted to play a quarter tone low you would have a down arrow and a sharp accidentals preceeding the note. |
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http://abel.hive.no/oj/musikk/trompet/tpin/Quarter_Tones.html
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| | Chunk#8 of EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENCYCLOPEDIA |
| | It fell into a whole-tone pattern, like impressionistic music, with a cluster of those peculiar quarter tones at the center. | | | There was a sound like a maniac trying to play Bartok on the harmonica, and Jameson realized it had been made by one of the Cygnans. | | | Once or twice, when his ear was fast enough to catch a fragment, he tried humming it back to them in perfect pitch, but the effort seemed to make no impression." [p.173] ¥ "Jameson never had to stop to think about a musical tone. |
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http://www.magicdragon.com/EmeraldCity/extraterrestrials/alien8.html
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