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  • noun music The use of microtones in composition

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microtonal +‎ -ity

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Examples

  • I was primarily thinking of the historical moment when just intonation and microtonality started sneaking back into Western classical music — the 40s and 50s.

    Arguments, agreements, advice, answers, articulate announcements Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • While microtonality should be nothing new to this audience,

    NewMusicBox 2010

  • Gilmore was giving a talk earlier in the day on microtonality in music.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • Gilmore was giving a talk earlier in the day on microtonality in music.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • My limited musical vocabulary and lack of any real understanding of what alternate tunings and microtonality amount to in practice mean that I can only say so much about the Trio Scordatura concert.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • My limited musical vocabulary and lack of any real understanding of what alternate tunings and microtonality amount to in practice mean that I can only say so much about the Trio Scordatura concert.

    Irish Blogs 2009

  • They use microtonality and although I can clumsily appproximate them on Finale (in a bass-ackward sort of way ...)

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2009

  • I can state that the new music community was a political institution was quite hostile to any form of microtonality in the 70s, 80s, and a fair bit of the 90s.

    Discussion Forum - NetNewMusic 2008

  • In “Mina,” for example, the juxtaposition of a Bo Diddley rhythm and a characteristically Arabic microtonality was far more striking live, and songs like “Today” and “Fatima” had a power that the recording doesn’t match.

    Berlin in Lights: Is There Pop After Weimar? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • In “Mina,” for example, the juxtaposition of a Bo Diddley rhythm and a characteristically Arabic microtonality was far more striking live, and songs like “Today” and “Fatima” had a power that the recording doesn’t match.

    Berlin in Lights: Is There Pop After Weimar? - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

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