10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MICROTONE»
Discover the use of
microtone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
microtone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic
The best microtone I have been able to find is a freezing microtone, for you don't
want to put the tissues through Miller's fluid or anything else. With a freezing
microtone you can make the best of sections. I fooled away a week with an ...
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A Dictionary for the Modern Flutist
Same as microtone. MICROTONAL TRILL. See key vibrato. MICROTONE. An
interval smaller than a semitone (a semitone being the smallest interval in
traditional Western music). For example, any note between the notes C1 and C♯
1 would ...
3
The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music
Microtone. The term microtone is generally used to denote intervals which are
significantly smaller than a semi-tone. In Persian music, no such intervals are
used by themselves, but I have referred to tones lowered or raised by a microtone
.
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The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Microtone 417 the Berkshire Music Center, Brooklyn College (1954-61), and City
College in New York (1962- 80). Works include 8 operas (The Barrier, Langston
Hughes, 1950); orchestral and band music; chamber and piano music; Missa ...
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The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques
Microtone Harmonics Any stopped harmonic can be slightly detuned by moving
the fundamental and the node slightly higher or lower. This allows the harmonics
to enter the world of microtonal music. Michael Finnissy's virtuosic Song 13 voor ...
Patricia Strange, Allen Strange, 2003
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The Music of Manuel M. Ponce, Julian Carrillo, and Carlos ...
Meanwhile, microtonal solo passages were copied microtone-for-microtone from
one score to the other. The resulting piece is one that sounds far more tonal than
its predecessor. Using metamorphosis, many quarter-tone sections were ...
Christina Taylor Gibson, 2008
microtone | middle eight 125 was more flexible and accordingly, more durable
than its shellac predecessor. Shellac discs were used for speeds recorded at 78
rpms. i microtone in Western music, each pitch or tone on the scale has a specific
...
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Musical Terms Worldwide: A Companion for the Musical Explorer
SHOUT CHORUS [Jazz performance]. Special, complete and through-composed
chorus played just before the final out chorus. Characteristic feature of big band
jazz. SHRUTI [Indian music theory]. Intonation or microtone in Indian art music; ...
Jan Laurens Hartong, Simon Mills, Peter van Amstel, 2006
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All Aspects of ROCK & JAZZ /1, Music Theory
Blues-B - a new note symbol Constructing an accidental for a blues microtone is
in itself a bit dubious, as the blues notes have a tendency to rise ("labial"*)) and
could be considered a process rather than a fixed note. Although a special tie ...
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Webster's II New College Dictionary
microtone. 692 mi*cro*cyte mi'kra-sit'ln- [MICEO- * IERYTHRO)CYTE.J An
abnormally small red blood «11, less than five microns in diameter. — mir- cro-cyt
'ic (-slt'Ikl adj. mi. cro -dot mi'kro-dOt'] n. A photographic reproduction of whiten or
...
Houghton Mifflin Company, Webster, 1999
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MICROTONE»
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microtone is used in the context of the following news items.
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At the heart of this unique and beguiling musical adventure, there is a devotion to the microtone – what the Indian masters call the sruti – that ... «The Arts Desk, Jul 15»
From nadaswaram and thavil to violin and trombone: the amazing …
(Even in the Carnatic context, there have been variations effected on the instruments in question, in order to allow for a microtone-led melodic ... «Scroll.in, Jun 15»
Nanoporous gyroid platinum with high catalytic activity from block …
The nucleation density was calculated from the results of the transmission electron microscopy microtone section with a thickness of 50 nm and ... «Nature.com, Apr 15»
Big Ears 2015: On the Ground at America's Biggest Avant-Garde Party
For their final set of the weekend, they joined Nels Cline at the same club for a microtone-heavy piece that sounded like Branca-gone-Zappa. «RollingStone.com, Mar 15»
Nude penthouse parties, speakeasies, gypsies: When you keep …
When the time felt right, he began to sing Phrygian incantations of quivering sustained notes separated by the occasional microtone. I didn't ... «Death and Taxes, Mar 15»
Music preview: The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival explores …
But one man's microtone is another man's C major. In much of the world, from India to Indonesia to Turkey, musical scales commonly contain ... «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Feb 15»
Review: The Jack and the Calder Quartet in Concert
... managed to sound free while maintaining control in a central passage of hovering harmonies, built from the overtones of a base microtone. «New York Times, Feb 15»
Duo plays Beethoven as Beethoven would have wished
Tuning both fortepiano and cello a microtone lower than “modern pitch” will further replicate the sound that Beethoven heard in his head. «San Francisco Examiner, Feb 15»
Next at the Tractor Tavern: fortepiano and cello
O'Riley, in turn, will play an authentic fortepiano, whose sound Beethoven also had in mind. Tuning a microtone lower than “modern pitch” will ... «The Seattle Times, Jan 15»
Haimovitz and O'Riley Reunite for New Beethoven Tour
... a microtone lower than the modern A=440 and higher than the Baroque A=415. "I think we all vibrate a little better at that pitch," says O'Riley. «Broadway World, Jan 15»
