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Subject: microtonality in popular music

🔗mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)

4/4/1998 5:49:53 PM
>I have interest in "2001" and "Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan" - soundtrack.
> Can someone tell me how to find the exact spots where the microtonal music
>is located.

I think I recall people mentioning these two scenes:
STII: The music behind the computer-generated animation of how the "Genesis"
device works. I think that was ... oh ... probably something like
about a half hour into the movie, as a guess.
2001: The vocal (choral) music associated with the black monolith. Probably
something on the order of 15 minutes into the movie, again as a guess.
I haven't checked into either of those suggestions. I don't recall either
being particularly microtonal, but I don't have any reason to doubt what
they're saying.

Some other comments in this thread bring to mind a personal opinion
about microtonality in general: There's a big difference between music
being microtonal, and having notes detuned here and there. I personally
believe that a truly microtonal composition should be tuned, preferably
systematically, unlike 12TET throughout the entire composition.