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"Quarter-tones are a type of microtone. [In traditional Western music,] for each octave there is 12 notes.  Quarter-tones [...] breaks it down into 24 notes per octave," says Composer Diesel Bodine.  He also lists other systems of breaking down microtones with "13-25, 30, 31, 36, 43, 48, 60, 72, 96" notes per octave.

Click here to check out Bodine's "Introduction to Quarter-tone Music," which is where I found out the above and about several of the composers below (it's a strange video).


Alois Hába - Sonata for Quarter-tone Piano.


Julián Carrillo: Balbuceos (First part).  Click here for the second part.


(Starts at :21.) "Microtonalismo" by Guitarra Heptadecafonica.

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