microtonality
- a word derived from microtone.
Example Sentences
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I’ve explored microtonality, so on the one hand, it’s like everything’s in tune, right?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2025
Composers working with microtonality — or with the pitches found between the notes on traditionally tuned Western instruments — are having a banner year.
From New York Times ● Oct. 8, 2020
Influenced by transformative composers like Janacek, Bartok, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, Mr. Husa evolved from an early neo-Classical idiom through experiments with atonality, serialism, microtonality and indeterminacy to reach his distinctive style.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2017
The writer was Georg Friedrich Haas, whose powerfully emotional, politically charged music and explorations of microtonality make him one of the world’s leading composers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2016
While there is traditional singing, pitches are not always tuned to a rigorous tempered scale but allow for expressive microtonality, something true of the marimbas as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2015
