SIX, ALL THE MUSIC IS MICROTONAL

SIX ALL THE MUSIC IS MICROTONAL TD 1187, 1213

) Where is the 12 ? 1192, 1194, 1201, 1206
) Musical writing
) Harmonics (Carl Lumma) 1188
) Just listen (Marion) 1188
) More than 12
) Sound Spectrum
continuum (Hstick) 1205
) Cross-cultural (J. Reinhard) 1198, 1203
) Piano's Tuning
) Microtonal Architecture (J. Szanto) 1197
- Myriad of both tunings and styles (J. Reinhard) 1201
- Xenharmonic music (John Chalmers) 1206


Musical writing

Really I don't know if somebody has written no less than one hundred pages
that I think it at least require, If not, this subtitle, as many others,
will require a special research.
The problem is why has the music writed in the staff (pentagram) a
microtonal intention. When does the problem beguin ? How did it evolute,
and how did somebody use it in the practice of music anywhere ?
The fact is that in each Octave we have 35 note-symbols (and 35 subsequent
note-names) to represent 12.
With one exeption each one of the twelve notes has 3 note-symbols. G sharp-A
bemol has 2.
The 35 notes appertain to pythagorean criteria. But it's hard to believe
that somebody had used this in practice.
When I studied violin I asked about it and the answer was done
theoretically. In practice more or less "go ahead and don't worry" !
The 35 notes are placed in 12 "zones of 3 notes". Being the three notes in a
row of one comma of separation.
All of this is implicit with microtonalism.

There is another matter not conected with microtonalism but with the madhouse.
-- Do you know in how many different manners may the 12 notes be written ?
----- I counted more than 500 .

Eduardo

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