https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1XOnIk2ai8
Microtonality is rarely found in most western music, even in more progressive styles like jazz, prog rock and classical. However, if you look in the right pl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtone_(music)
Microtonal or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.In other words, a microtone may be thought of as a note that falls "between the keys" of a piano tuned in equal temperament.

https://cklixx.people.wm.edu/teaching/math400/Wu-paper2.pdf
Microtonality in Western Music. Wayne Wu. In traditional Western musical practice, composers rarely deviate from the dominant. eantone Temperamen. or 12-toneEqual Temperament. Since Western music usually divides an o. tave into 12 notes, music thatdivides an octave into more than 12 notes are usually referre.

https://open.lib.umn.edu/musiccomposition/chapter/microtonality/
Microtonality is not a genre, or a technique, or a style. It has as many interpretations, modes of expression, and techniques as tonal music. ... Composers interested in intonation systems other than the standard equal-tempered one practiced in the Western Classical tradition, particularly numerous Americans composers, including Harry Partch

https://www.britannica.com/art/microtonal-music
Some Western composers and music theorists have suggested the use of microtonal intervals derived from the octave of 100-cent half tones—e.g., intervals of a quarter tone (50 cents), 6th tone (33.3 cents), 12th tone (16.7 cents), and 16th tone (12.5 cents). In this last case, the octave would consist of 96 equal divisions, and the modern semitone would equal eight of them in sequence; e.g

https://theproaudiofiles.com/microtones/
Before talking about microtonal systems we should define the typical tuning system used in Western music known as 12 tone equal temperament based on 12 equal divisions per octave, or 12 EDO. ... and at some point will come out of the woodwork or start a band that's making truly mind-blowing microtonal music that really brings microtonality

https://blog.discmakers.com/2017/08/microtones-the-notes-between-the-notes/
Microtonal music is also known as xenharmonic music and polychromatic music. You may have heard the term "quarter-tone." A quarter-tone is specific microtone, one that is exactly halfway between two Western semitones, so for example, "C half-sharp" is a quarter-tone that is 50 cents sharper than C. We are surrounded by microtones

https://untwelve.org/what
In the most obvious definition, microtonality (from Greek micro, "small") is the use of intervals smaller than the usual whole-tones and semitones of the best-known Western European compositional traditions, although the use of such intervals is a routine feature of many world musics. (2) MICROTONALITY AS THE USE OF "UNUSUAL" INTERVALS OR

https://www.huygens-fokker.org/microtonality.html
Microtonal music lets the Western composer, musician and listener hear the possibilities and impossibilities of the musical tone-system and changes the outlook on the twelve-tone system. Microtonal music is a collective name for various kinds of music that use tone systems different from what is customary in Western music.

https://www.microtonaltheory.com/home
Microtonal music is any music that isn't tuned in 12 tone equal temperament. It includes: The ancient Greek foundations of western music, like Pythagorean tuning, the seven-limit genera of Archytas, and Ptolemy's diatonic scale.. All western music of the Renaissance and most of the Baroque period, which used tuning systems like well temperaments and meantone temperaments.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/arts/music/georg-friedrich-haass-works-are-rooted-in-microtonality.html
The composer Georg Friedrich Haas explores microtonality — a system that divides the conventional scale of Western classical music into many more than its usual 12 semitone pitches — in his works.

https://musictales.club/article/microtonality-variety-approaches-microtonal-music-world-cultures
During the Baroque and Classical periods, when major and minor modes reigned supreme in Western music, few of the composers paid attention to microtonality or any other alternative scales such as Phrygian or Lydian. Rare evidence of interest in microtones can be found in the quarter-tone fingerings for the one-keyed flute described by French

https://www.academia.edu/43247406/Microtonal_Music_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe_Historical_Outlines_and_Current_Practices_Introduction
The authors examine how diverse concepts of microtonality have given way to new composition theories and. ... This volume is based on the conviction that microtonality is a fundamental change-indicating concept in Western music history. The book focuses on the development of microtonal music in Eastern and Central Europe from World War I to the

https://www.academia.edu/43244878/Introduction_to_Microtonal_Music
This volume is based on the conviction that microtonality is a fundamental change-indicating concept in Western music history. The book focuses on the development of microtonal music in Eastern and Central Europe from World War I to the present. The authors examine how diverse concepts of microtonality have given way to new composition theories

https://www.academia.edu/98958845/Microtonal_Music_in_Central_and_Eastern_Europe_Historical_Outlines_and_Current_Practices
This volume is based on the conviction that microtonality is a fundamental change-indicating concept in Western music history. The book focuses on the development of microtonal music in Eastern and Central Europe from World War I to the present. The authors examine how diverse concepts of microtonality have given way to new composition theories

https://tildes.net/~music/175q/an_introduction_to_microtonal_music_including_a_long_list_of_recommendations
Brendan Byrnes - 2227. YouTube / Bandcamp. Brendan Byrnes has some excellent microtonal rock music which generally uses a lot of electronic elements as well (synthesizers, digital effects, and occasionally drum machines). Sometimes this recalls synthwave, but genre-wise it's very much its own thing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/LetsTalkMusic/comments/kprd7r/lets_talk_microtonal_music_in_the_modern_age/
Microtonal music refers to the use of tuning systems that are not the 12 TET system; that is, music that splits the octave into more or less than 12 tones, in some way or another. Now, microtonal tunings have been used in non-western cultures for centuries, including Indian, Indonesian, Thai, Burmese, African, and Arabic music.

https://www.academia.edu/6811911/Microtonal_Music_and_its_Relationship_to_Historical_Practice
Agustín Castilla-Ávila. This volume is based on the conviction that microtonality is a fundamental change-indicating concept in Western music history. The book focuses on the development of microtonal music in Eastern and Central Europe from World War I to the present. The authors examine how diverse concepts of microtonality have given way

https://docslib.org/doc/3732237/microtonality-in-western-music
Recently, however, the term "microtonality" is used to describe any musical practice that deviates from the 12-tone Equal Temperament. In this article, we will first look at the mathematical background of denoting microtonality, and then two ways of implementing microtonality in Western music: alternative equal temperament and just

https://icmacyfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Microtonal-music-and-its-relationship-to-historical-practice.pdf
evolving timbral domain, microtonality andafter the fact of performance, societal technological status, cultural and logical outset, and aesthetical artistic nuance p. 56 Conclusion, truth in music, modality of believing, dynamic tonality, Third-stream music, sound painting, new directions p. 58 Glossary, p. 62 References 2

https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/16s328z/are_there_any_specific_resources_to_learn/
Microtonal music or microtonality is the use in music of microtones—intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals". ... Non-western musicians who play traditional non-western music and western musicians who take significant chunks of influence from non-western music: Middle eastern makam, maqam, dastgah and so on and north

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07494467.2016.1221635
Abstract. While numerous contemporary composers have explored the endless possibilities afforded by microtonal tuning systems, Western popular music has hitherto rarely ventured from the harmonic comfort zone of 12-tone equal temperament.

https://college.berklee.edu/minors/microtonal-music
The microtonal minor, overseen by the Planet MicroJam Institute, explores the musical notes that exist outside of the traditional Western 12-tone octave model. Through this minor, students explore the various musical styles (blues, Middle Eastern music, and more) that use microtones. They will apply different styles and methods of using microtones in both composition and performance across

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/post-malone-announces-september-show-at-ruoff-music-center-promoting-new-country-western-album/ar-BB1oRH4P
Post Malone will headline a show at the Ruoff Music Center, located at 12880 E. 146th St. in Noblesville, on Sept. 12. The Noblesville date is one of Malone's 21 scheduled concerts in the fall

https://www.westernmassnews.com/2024/06/26/country-music-star-darius-rucker-appears-court-drug-charges/
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV/Gray News) - Country music star Darius Rucker appeared in a Tennessee courtroom on Tuesday related to his drug charges in Williamson County.Rucker, best known for being the