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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 50. Chapters: Harmony, Microtonal music, Aleatoric music, Inversion, Diatonic function, Neo-Riemannian theory, Algorithmic composition, Thummer keyboard, Klumpenhouwer network, Wicki-Hayden note layout, Transformational theory, Modulatory space, Chord-scale system, Pitch constellation, Progressive tonality, Diminution, Octave species, Spiral array model, Ohm's acoustic law, Augmentation, Treatise on Instrumentation, Centonization, Synthetic modes, Four-part harmony, Musivisual Language, Sonorism, Pythagorean hammers, Equivalence class, Similarity relation, Melodics, Danger music, Chromatic fourth, Musical tone, Lament bass, I vi ii V, Constant structure, Descending tetrachord, Fragmentation, Tension, Musical similarity, Museme, Distance model, First octave, Rudiments of music, Aural space, Projected set, Privileged pattern, Musical cue, Order, Musical idea, Head-motif. Excerpt: 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. Microtonal music can refer to all music which contains intervals smaller than the conventional contemporary Western semitone. The term implies music containing very small intervals but can include any tuning that differs from the western 12-tone equal temperament. Traditional Indian systems of 22 ruti; Indonesian gamelan music; Thai, Burmese, and African musics, and music using just intonation, meantone temperament, or other alternative tunings may be considered microtonal.(Griffiths and Lindley 1980; Griffiths, Lindley, and Zannos 2001). Microtonal variation of intervals is standard practice in the African-American musical forms of spirituals, blues and jazz (Cook and Pople 2004, 124-26). Many microtonal equal divisions of the octave...
