This is in 24 equal divisions of the octave (24 EDO), twice the usual twelve, commonly referred to as "quarter tone" since each step is a quarter of a whole step in standard tuning. It's gotten a moderate amount of use for about a century now - Wyschnegradsky, Haba, and Carillo each wrote a decent sized repertoire, and a number of other composers have written one or a few pieces, like Ives and Blackwood. But nothing any of them wrote sounds like this. Conventional wisdom has held that quartertone chords are always very dissonant and there are no harmonic relationships between the 2 twelve-tone "fields". I've found that's just not so and am making discussion videos and writing pieces to demonstrate it. There are some current microtonal composers doing more appealing pieces in quarter tone and I've linked to a few of them in my "Some Other Quartertone Pieces" playlist.
This is really good! I can see you've made this on musescore, if I could offer any suggestion, I'd say that you could try looking into using different .sf2 or .sfz files for various instruments. You can find them easily online. That way you could work with sounds that sound better than stock musescore sounds and make your already cool piece sound even better!
This sounds...suprisingly consonant.
Makes me do a lil dance
One of those rare pieces that grabs your soul
Very cool and extremely appreciated
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Thank you, I'm very flattered.
Really good! Duke Ellington's band playing behind a Lucio Battisti and Patti Smith duet, on the Moon.
So, I'm new to microtonal music (and musicality in general, tbh), but I'm curious what tuning system you used for this?
This is in 24 equal divisions of the octave (24 EDO), twice the usual twelve, commonly referred to as "quarter tone" since each step is a quarter of a whole step in standard tuning. It's gotten a moderate amount of use for about a century now - Wyschnegradsky, Haba, and Carillo each wrote a decent sized repertoire, and a number of other composers have written one or a few pieces, like Ives and Blackwood. But nothing any of them wrote sounds like this. Conventional wisdom has held that quartertone chords are always very dissonant and there are no harmonic relationships between the 2 twelve-tone "fields". I've found that's just not so and am making discussion videos and writing pieces to demonstrate it.
There are some current microtonal composers doing more appealing pieces in quarter tone and I've linked to a few of them in my "Some Other Quartertone Pieces" playlist.
This is really good! I can see you've made this on musescore, if I could offer any suggestion, I'd say that you could try looking into using different .sf2 or .sfz files for various instruments. You can find them easily online. That way you could work with sounds that sound better than stock musescore sounds and make your already cool piece sound even better!
Thanks for the tip. Yes, I've noticed some deficiencies in the stock MuseScore sound files, particularly the saxophones.