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Microtonality is the use in
music of
microtones —
intervals smaller than a semitone, also
called "microintervals". It may also be
extended to
include any...
- by
musicologist Vidyadhar Oke, who
developed a 22-
microtone harmonium,
which can play 22
microtones as
required in
Indian classical music. The fundamental...
- The
shruti or śruti [ɕrʊtɪ] is the
smallest interval of
pitch that the
human ear can
detect and a
singer or
musical instrument can produce. The concept...
- In
musical notation, an
accidental is a
symbol that
indicates an
alteration of a
given pitch. The most
common accidentals are the flat (♭) and the sharp...
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Musical symbols are
marks and
symbols in
musical notation that
indicate various aspects of how a
piece of
music is to be performed.
There are
symbols to...
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Middle East. Canaan's
unique style fuses Middle-Eastern
quarter notes and
microtones with
anglophone rock.
Marcel Khalife, a
musician who
blends classical...
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These levers raise or
lower the
pitch of the
string course by a
microtone, less than a half step. Some
instruments are emplo**** with sympathetic...
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gamelan onto the
western staff, with and
without various symbols for
microtones. The
Dutch composer Ton de
Leeuw also
invented a
three line
staff for...
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continuously variable pitch, such as the
trombone and violin, can also
produce microtones, or
notes between those available on a piano. Most
music uses subsets...
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because of the sitar's
movable frets,
sometimes a fret may be set to a
microtone already, and no
bending would be required). This was
developed by Vilayat...
