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Microtonality: History & Music

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…

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Microtonality topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Music as prominent areas in the source structure around Microtonality.

Related topics
262
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
268
Extracted relationships
512
Concept neighborhoods
47
Bridge connections
268

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

In the West · 126 topics
Terminology · 56 topics
History · 41 topics
Microtonality in rock music · 19 topics
Microtonality in electronic music · 17 topics
Overview · 3 topics

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Overview

Terminology

History

Microtonality in electronic music

Microtonality in rock music

In the West

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Microtonality connects Entity context

The extracted context around Microtonality shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Microtonality → About Backyards, Academic Press, Accessed, Achim Reichel, Acustica, Adding Pitches, Adèr, Aesthetics, Alessandro Barca, Allgemeine Harmonik, Alois, An Encyclopedia, An Unknown, Ancient Chinese Music, Ancient Near East, Annuario, Anouk Jeschke, Aphex Twin Syrobonkers, April, Archaeologia Musicalis Another extracted example is Microtonality → Alain Bancquart, Alois Hába, Alvin Lucier, Australia, Austria, Bartók, Belgium, Ben Johnston, Brian Ferneyhough, Bruce Mather, Canada, Carlton Gamer, Charles Ives, Claude Ballif, Czechoslovakia, Douglas Leedy, Easley Blackwood, Edgard Varèse, Eivind Groven, Erv Wilson. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Microtonality

Top relations

related to Further reading · 322
Microtonality → About Backyards, Academic Press, Accessed, Achim Reichel, Acustica, Adding Pitches, Adèr, Aesthetics, Alessandro Barca, Allgemeine Harmonik, Alois, An Encyclopedia, An Unknown, Ancient Chinese Music, Ancient Near East, Annuario, Anouk Jeschke, Aphex Twin Syrobonkers, April, Archaeologia Musicalis
related to Western microtonal pioneers · 93
Microtonality → Alain Bancquart, Alois Hába, Alvin Lucier, Australia, Austria, Bartók, Belgium, Ben Johnston, Brian Ferneyhough, Bruce Mather, Canada, Carlton Gamer, Charles Ives, Claude Ballif, Czechoslovakia, Douglas Leedy, Easley Blackwood, Edgard Varèse, Eivind Groven, Erv Wilson
related to Later Western microtonal composers · 73
Microtonality → Aphex Twin, Brazil, Chinese, Clarence Barlow, Claude Vivier, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Daniel James Wolf, Dave Soldier, David First, Dean Drummond, Dongryul Lee, Elaine Walker, Elizabeth Brown, Enno Poppe, Eric Mandat, Erling Wold, ETs, Fabio Costa, Franklin Cox, François Paris
related to Microtone · 18
Microtonality → English, French, German, In English, In French, Indian, It, Julián Carrillo, Kleinintervall, Maud MacCarthy Mann, Mexican, Microinterval, Microtonal, Mikrointervall, Prior, Spanish, The, The English

Important terminology

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Important terminology

music microtonal equal quarter intervals used intonation just tones octave temperament de term new enharmonic also edition tone tuning microtone

Microtonality relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 512 structured relationships around Microtonality. Examples in this analysis include микротональность → instance of → this generalization term allowed also to avoid derivatives and Jon Catler have incorporated microtonal guitars like 31-tone equal tempered guitar → instance of → written and recorded by the delta blues musician Robert Johnson.Musicians. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

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микротональностьinstance ofthis generalization term allowed also to avoid derivatives0.80text
Jon Catler have incorporated microtonal guitars like 31-tone equal tempered guitarinstance ofwritten and recorded by the delta blues musician Robert Johnson.Musicians0.80text
a 62-tone just intonation guitar in bluesinstance ofwritten and recorded by the delta blues musician Robert Johnson.Musicians0.80text
jazz rock music.English rock band Radiohead has used microtonal string arrangements in their musicinstance ofwritten and recorded by the delta blues musician Robert Johnson.Musicians0.80text
such as oninstance ofwritten and recorded by the delta blues musician Robert Johnson.Musicians0.80text
the 96ETinstance ofmost particularly very dense ETs0.80text
Microtonalityrelated to Further readingAdèr0.60section
Microtonalityrelated to Further readingLidiâ Olegovna0.60section
Microtonalityrelated to Further readingThe Concept0.60section
Microtonalityrelated to Further readingIts Origin0.60section
Microtonalityrelated to Further readingBackground0.60section
Microtonalityrelated to Further readingOpera0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Microtonality bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Also, English and Western. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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    • Used
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    • Ancient
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    • Term
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    • Just
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    • System
    • Used
    • Tunings
    • Microtonal
    • Tones
    • Intervals
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    • Tones
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    • Just
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    • Third
    • Enharmonic
    • Ancient
    • Temperament
    • Greek
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  • harvard dictionary of music
    • Microtonal
    • Tuning
    • Term
    • New
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    • Microtone
    • Tone
    • Just
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  • the new grove dictionary of music and musicians
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    • Just
    • Edition
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Microtonality, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Microtonality with In the West. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
MicrotonalityIn the West · splits 142 ⟂ 127
MicrotonalityTerminology · splits 212 ⟂ 57
MicrotonalityHistory · splits 227 ⟂ 42
MicrotonalityMicrotonality in rock music · splits 249 ⟂ 20
MicrotonalityMicrotonality in electronic music · splits 251 ⟂ 18
MicrotonalityOverview · splits 265 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Microtonality

Nodes269
Edges268
Triples512
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007435
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Microtonality to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Music, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Microtonality · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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