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microtones.com FreeNote Music. Home of Microtonal and Just Intonation Music We are dedicated to providing the best in alternate-tuned music. This website uses frames but your browser doesn't view them properly. Here is a link to the text-only version of this website: www.microtones.com/text_only.index.htm...LucyTuning is a microtonal system derived from pi, and the writings of John 'Longitude' Harrison.
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LucyTuning*LucyScaleDevelopments*Pi tuning*LucyTuned Lullabies*John Longitude Harrison Setting tuning and harmonic standards into the future. Have fun with them. LucyTuned Lullabies (from around the world) New LucyTune site (May 2005) BBC Radio 4 interview with Robert Sandall about LucyTuning mp3 3min 54 seconds) Free mp3 Lullabies Downloads...Argues that the 34-tone equal-temperament scale is the most "natural" equal-temperament scale with fewer than 53 tones.
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Natural Temperament The table below gives a comparison of the 34-step equal-temperament octave with the standard 12-step equal-temperament octave. In column A are the frequency ratios needed for harmonious chords. Column B is obtained by taking the products of the ratios in...The AFMM produces and commissions works which use pitches and musical scales which are not organized in the standard twelve tone to the octave equally tempered way.
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American Festival of Microtonal Music ...Excellent discography of microtonal / xenharmonic / non-12 tone music (CD only). Contains addresses for record labels, and links to the artists (when available).
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List of microtonal music on CD This list contains microtonal/xenharmonic/non-12 music on CD only and no works in 12-note just intonation, 12-note in historical temperaments or ethnic traditional music. Xenharmonic is a term invented by Ivor Darreg for musical phenomena that sound different from having 12...Notes on microtonal composition, with sound files and an introduction to the 43 tone scale.
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r. l. reid's notes on microtonal composition These are various notes mine and others on microtonal composition. This continues to evolve. It's worth checking back from time to time. An article on Just Intonation guitars is in progress. Meantime, here's some stuff you might enjoy. r. l....Microtonal music page with large list of composers, mp3, WAV, MIDI, and Real Audio files of microtonal music.
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John Starrett's Microtonal Music Page This page is my effort to organize the web resources of microtonal music. If you find any valuable links, please mail them to me. If you are a microtonalist and you are not listed below, please e-mail your URL to...