Oddity Off-Shoot Issue 2 - Quarter-Tones

Varèse - Density 21.5 (Laura Pou, flute).





Edgard Varese - Ionisation.


Sequence of Five 3 quarter tones in persian music is a perfect 5th! 3/4 tone = 140 cents.


Varese Edgard & Le Corbusier (1958) - Poeme Electronique.


Charles Ives: 3 Quarter-Tone Pieces - II. Allegro.


"Quarter Tone Experiments" by Bill Evans.


Wyschnegradsky - Quarter-Tone Etude on Density and Volume No. 1.

Click here to watch a tutorial for Microtonal Music on a Mac.


"T.T.T. (Twelve Tone Tune)" by Bill Evans.

Oddity Off-Shoot Issue 2 - Quarter-Tones

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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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Oddity Instruments & Technology Vol. XIII - More Musical Madness/Mr. Harry Partch

Harry Partch - BBC Documentary - Part 1 of 6. Part 2 of 6 (click here), Part 3 of 6 (click here), Part 4 of 6 (click here), Part 5 of 6 (click here), or Part 6 of 6 (click here).


Hands on reacTable 2.  Check out a reactable freestyle here.


Cool New Music Toy!! Zoundz! (Circa 2006).  Website here (under construction).

Click here to check out a tangible sequencer line.


The Maneken I.M. Table Live@Kazantip 2009.


Microtonal Music Software - Scherzetto - Fourth of a Tone - Quarti di Tono.



Quarter-tone Piano Prelude #3.  YouTube Description: "The third of my Original Compositions from a Collection of Preludes for Quarter-tone Piano(s).  Composer: Scott Crothers (Diesel Bodine)."

Oddity Instruments & Technology Vol. XIII - More Musical Madness/Mr. Harry Partch