microtone
noun
any musical interval smaller than a semitone, specifically, a quarter tone.
microtonally
-
a word derived from
microtone.
Example Sentences
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Conceived as a new part of “Chornobyldorf Partita” and named after the city currently under siege, “Mariupol” is written for dulcimer and a microtonally retuned bandura, a lutelike folk instrument.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022
By 2001, his brutal, microtonally inclined “Implosion” was being played at the Donaueschingen Musiktage festival, the zenith for contemporary composers in Germany.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2020
Its music is a mixture of vocal-harmony traditions from all over — rich chords, call-and-response, drone-backed dissonances, microtonally inflected incantations, complex counterpoint, hocketing, propulsive unison refrains — delivered with handclaps, drumbeats and full-throated vehemence.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2020
Still microtonally dissonant and consonant, this is just how you would expect a wily drifter into the American Academy of Outsider Arts and Scrawled Graffiti to sound.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2018
Blame, if you will, the obscurity of microtonally tuned music for such neglect.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2018
