AW.: Re: AW.: Re: the word microtone-according to Wolf/and Ives

In einer Nachricht vom 12/1/99 3:03:01 PM (MEZ) Mitteleurop�ische
Zeitschreibt Afmmjr@aol.com:

<< the "smaller-than-a-semitone"
definition of a microtone is archaic. For example, according to these
howls,
Egyptian music is not microtonal because there is no interval used in the
maqam that are smaller than a semitone: they are all larger than a semitone.
>>

No Egyptian maqam has microtones (vibrato, ornamentation, and errors aside).
_Systems_ onto which several maqam are mapped will have microtones, but they
are abstract constructions independent of the actual maqam.