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The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
John Eaton

Meaning of "microtonal" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MICROTONAL

microtonal  [ˌmaɪkrəʊˈtəʊnəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MICROTONAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Microtonal is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MICROTONAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Microtonal music

Microtonal music is music using microtones—intervals of less than an equally spaced semitone. Microtonal music can also refer to music which uses intervals not found in the Western system of 12 equal intervals to the octave.

Definition of microtonal in the English dictionary

The definition of microtonal in the dictionary is of or relating to any musical interval smaller than a semitone.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MICROTONAL


atonal
eɪˈtəʊnəl
azonal
eɪˈzəʊnəl
baritonal
ˌbærɪˈtəʊnəl
bitonal
ˌbaɪˈtəʊnəl
bizonal
ˌbaɪˈzəʊnəl
clonal
ˈkləʊnəl
ecotonal
iːkəˈtəʊnəl
hormonal
hɔːˈməʊnəl
interzonal
ˌɪntəˈzəʊnəl
monoclonal
ˌmɒnəʊˈkləʊnəl
neurohormonal
ˌnjʊərəʊˌhɔːˈməʊnəl
neuronal
njʊəˈrəʊnəl
nonhormonal
ˌnɒnhɔːˈməʊnəl
nontonal
ˌnɒnˈtəʊnəl
patronal
pəˈtrəʊnəl
polyclonal
ˌpɒlɪˈkləʊnəl
polytonal
ˌpɒlɪˈtəʊnəl
semitonal
ˈsemɪˌtəʊnəl
tonal
ˈtəʊnəl
zonal
ˈzəʊnəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MICROTONAL

microswitch
microtechnic
microtechnique
microtechnology
microtome
microtomic
microtomical
microtomies
microtomist
microtomy
microtonality
microtonally
microtone
microtransmitter
microtubular
microtubule
microtunnelling
microvascular
microvillar
microvilli

WORDS THAT END LIKE MICROTONAL

additional
cantonal
constitutional
conventional
educational
emotional
exceptional
functional
institutional
international
national
operational
optional
personal
professional
promotional
regional
seasonal
the National
traditional

Synonyms and antonyms of microtonal in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «microtonal» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MICROTONAL

Find out the translation of microtonal to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of microtonal from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «microtonal» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

微音程
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

microtonal
570 millions of speakers

English

microtonal
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

microtonal
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

microtonal
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

микротональные
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

microtonal
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

microtonal
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

microtonale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Microtonal
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mikrotonalen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

微分音
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

microtonal
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Microtonal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

microtonal
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

microtonal
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायट्रोनल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mikrotonal
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

microtonale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

microtonal
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

мікротональние
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

microtonal
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

microtonal
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

micro tonale
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

microtonal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mikrotonal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of microtonal

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROTONAL»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MICROTONAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about microtonal

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2 QUOTES WITH «MICROTONAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word microtonal.
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John Eaton
The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.
2
John Eaton
Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROTONAL»

Discover the use of microtonal in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to microtonal and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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20th-century microtonal notation
No other book has covered the subject of 20th-century microtonal notation in such depth as this comprehensive guide book. 20th-Century Microtonal Notation surveys the many attempts to notate various microtonal divisions of the octave in our ...
Gardner Read, 1990
2
The Harvard Dictionary of Music
The modern resurgence of interest in microtonal scales coincided with the search for expanded tonal resources in much 19th-century music. Jacques Fromental Halevy was the first modern composer to subdivide the semitone, in his cantata ...
Don Michael Randel, 2003
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The Dawn of Indian Music in the West
Ravi picked a key, and he used a raga which did not have lots of altered microtonal conditions to it. And he knew what he was doing, he knew the Western musicians wouldn't be able to really hear it comfortably anyway. He told me, "I picked a ...
Peter Lavezzoli, 2006
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How to Become a Guitar Player from Hell
Microtonal bends are also interesting. This is where you bend the string only a quarter ofa step, or just an eighth ofa step away (ifthat is even audible), to give the note a small “twang” or “twinge” or “smear” that differs slightly from the original ...
Jason Earls, 2007
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Toward a Quarter-tone Syntax: Analyses of Selected Works by ...
Music Theory, a valuable technical resource, with numerous articles about the mathematical and acoustical properties of microtonal music;1 the Making Microtonal Music website, hosting a useful list of links to microtonal composers' web sites, ...
Myles Leigh Skinner, 2007
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The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, ...
Stoney Stockell helped her achieve a long-desired goal of exploring microtonal tunings by retrotting her Synergys to load pitches from a desktop computer in real time.This allowed Wendy to design and explore dierent scales and instrumental ...
Mark Vail, 2014
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The Synthesizer: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, ...
Stoney Stockell helped her achieve a long-desired goal of exploring microtonal tunings by retrotting her Synergys to load pitches from a desktop computer in real time.This allowed Wendy to design and explore dierent scales and instrumental ...
Mark Vail, 2014
8
The Sacred in Music
with countless microtonal variations, yet as a general rule their melodies draw from a repertory of twelve discrete tones or fewer - specifically, seven or five. Malm notes these basic principles in the tunings and scales of Persian music: There ...
Albert L. Blackwell, 1999
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The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music
His lifetime interest in tempered microtonal music manifested itself in 1917 in a suite for strings. During the 1920s he designed and had built a piano and clarinet for playing tempered microtonal music; later he had a trumpet, a guitar, and two ...
Don Michael Randel, 1996
10
Mathematics and Computation in Music: First International ...
... MCM 2007, Berlin, Germany, May 18-20, 2007. Revised Selected Papers Timour Klouche, Thomas Noll. Tonal, Atonal and Microtonal Pitch-Class Categories Fernando Gualda Sonic Arts Research Centre Queen's University Belfast, UK ...
Timour Klouche, Thomas Noll, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MICROTONAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term microtonal is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles
... the traditional Western scale and the musical instruments that were devised over the centuries to play it, and became a pioneer in microtonal ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Deep Listening: Only Connect Oslo In Review
They use a multitude of vocal effects as you pass between them ranging from Ligetti drones, pitching up and down in microtonal increments to ... «The Quietus, Jul 15»
3
WHEN ATTITUDE BECOMES A FOUNDATION “Making the …
... his compositions, instead developing a microtonal scale based on an octave divided into an astonishing 43 unequal tones “exposing notes in ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jul 15»
4
Reza Vali's The Ancient Call (Calligraphy No. 13)
The piece features Mr. Berntsen — a member of the Pittsburgh Symphony's trumpet section — performing on a microtonal trumpet. Because all ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jul 15»
5
3D-printed flutes hit new notes
... of a flute that – due to its customised diameter, length, and hole placement – produced unique microtonal notes smaller than a semitone. «TechRadar, Jul 15»
6
3D-Printed Flutes Can Produce Notes That Regular Flutes Can't
... customised in terms of diameter, length, and hole placement so that it produced unique microtonal notes that are smaller than a semitone. «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
7
You're 100% Wrong About Bob Dylan
Like a great jazz wind or horn player, Dylan's sound is unmistakable because he chose his own tonality, hewing close to the microtonal pitches ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
8
A stormy yet brilliant birth for MacMillan premiere at Grant Park
... glossalalia (“phony Aramaic,” as Kalmar put it) that grows in volume and complexity, recalling the microtonal voicings of Ligeti's Requiem. «Chicago Classical Review, Jun 15»
9
Classical CDs Weekly: Yotam Haber, Janáček, Mahler
... All. The most striking feature is the noise it makes, the eight solo violins retuned so that their open strings can play a 16-note microtonal scale. «The Arts Desk, Jun 15»
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Charles Lloyd brings deep jazz credibility to Toronto fest
... imagination being challenged by Eastern European instrumentation (the Greek lira and Hungarian cimbalom) and by microtonal sonorities. «Toronto Star, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Microtonal [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/microtonal>. May 2024 ».
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