Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music

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Synopsis

This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic. It proposes music with more than one microtonal tuning system and discusses examples from the literature to give an historic framework showing that this tendency has been present throughout human musical history. Polytempo is a tool for which polymicrotonal structures can function in relief from its background, and it acts as a frame, or ground structure, that is multidimensional, akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art. The book has historic significance as it is the only book of its category, or genre, in music that features polymicrotonality in music composition or production. It displays examples of music literature for musical precedence in this area, focusing on Charles Ives’s Universe Symphony, unfinished since 1925.

Book details

Author:
Peter Alexander Thoegersen
ISBN:
9781000631302
Related ISBNs:
9781003311683, 9789814968294, 9781003311683, 9789814968294
Publisher:
Jenny Stanford Publishing
Pages:
180
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-09-07
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2022
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Music, Nonfiction