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Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

By: Peter Alexander Thoegersen

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Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

By: Peter Alexander Thoegersen

This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multidimensional, akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art. The book has historic significance as it is the only book of its category, or genre, in music that features polymicrotonality in music composition or production. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925.

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1000631303

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Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

By: Peter Alexander Thoegersen

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100063132X

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Maqam Melodies

Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and other Microtonal Writings

By: Peter Thoegersen

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Maqam Melodies

Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and other Microtonal Writings

By: Peter Thoegersen

This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths. The ratio 3/2, as the fifth overtone in the overtone series, is used as a multiplier leading to numeric ratios for all pitches in the tetrachords and pentachords of the maqam. Musicians today are highly curious about expanding the pitch palette and are already employing microtones in their music, from folk rock to classical music. The maqam is among the few extant analyzed systems of music from antiquity that reflect the methods of the Greek Genera, in terms of tuning and function. The book also discusses Charles Ives's use of microtones, Bach and his use of microtones, and a score of Hypercube, the seminal composition discussed in the author’s first book, Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music, which was not published in its entirety in the former book. The text covers microtones philosophically, questioning the efficacy of such tunings. This book is accessible to the beginners in the field and will be beneficial to musical analyses in colleges and universities also by showing detailed analysis of Bach chorales in their original modes, and how their tuning presented complete character shifts by the microtones they contained by mean-tone temperament, an offshoot of Pythagorean tuning during the Baroque.

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1040051413

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Maqam Melodies

Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and other Microtonal Writings

By: Peter Thoegersen

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Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and other Microtonal Writings

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Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

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