A selection of compositions using quarter tones:

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ Saito 2008, p. 12.
  2. ^ Bach, "Concert Variations", JanBach.com.
  3. ^ Op de Coul 2012, "Uses quarter tones."
  4. ^ Clements 2008.
  5. ^ Couture & [2001].
  6. ^ Gagné 2012, p. 26.
  7. ^ Read 1990, p. 51.
  8. ^ Somfai 1996, p. 269; Bayley 2001, p. 168
  9. ^ Riley 1996, p. 275; Gagné 2012, p. 217
  10. ^ Gagné 2012, p. 217; Read 1990, p. 52
  11. ^ Johnston 2013; Michaels 2013
  12. ^ Skinner 2007, p. vii.
  13. ^ Read 1964, pp. 143–144.
  14. ^ a b c d e f Gagné 2012, p. 217.
  15. ^ Skinner 2007, p. 45.
  16. ^ Gagné 2012, p. 217; Read 1990, p. 58
  17. ^ Boulez 1986, pp. 129–131.
  18. ^ "Jacob Collier - in the Bleak Midwinter (Transcription)". YouTube.
  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac Read 1990, p. 2.
  20. ^ Gagné 2012, p. 217; Latham 2008, p. 11
  21. ^ Hinson 1983, p. 42.
  22. ^ Couper 1937.
  23. ^ Saffle 2000, p. 230.
  24. ^ Hinson 1983, pp. 52–53.
  25. ^ Keislar 1991, p. 185, "The nine harps are divided into three groups of three and tuned in sixth-tones, and the flute plays in quarter-steps"
  26. ^ Lanser and Monahan & [1999].
  27. ^ Oteri 2004, n. 12, "At some point, he outfitted his entire trumpet section with four-valved trumpets whose additional valve allowed them to play quarter-tones"
  28. ^ Bentoiu 2010, pp. 242–244.
  29. ^ Patterson 2009, pp. 38–39.
  30. ^ Anon. 2011.
  31. ^ Anon. 2001, p. 347; Anon. 2007, p. 106
  32. ^ Kurtz 2007, p. 232.
  33. ^ Lhermet 2016.
  34. ^ Fiilin 2020.
  35. ^ "Georg Friedrich Haas: 3 Hommages", UniversalEdition.com.
  36. ^ Macdonald 2001.
  37. ^ Gagné 2012, p. 217; Rosner and Wolverton 2001, [page needed]
  38. ^ Pappastavrou 1974; Sherwood 2002, pp. 123–126
  39. ^ Borchert 2015.
  40. ^ "The Legendary Microtonal Trio by Jeronimas Kačinskas – a challenge for performers". Music Information Centre Lithuania. Retrieved June 3, 2021.
  41. ^ "Classical Music". The New Yorker. Vol. 74, no. 1–10. p. 23.
  42. ^ Steinitz 2003, p. 201. However, Duchesneau (2011, p. 135) states that Ramifications is Ligeti's "only work in quarter tones".
  43. ^ Steinitz 2003, p. 183. However, Duchesneau (2011, p. 135) states that Ramifications is Ligeti's "only work in quarter tones".
  44. ^ Clendinning 1993, p. 219; Duchesneau 2011, p. 135; Griffiths 2001; Roig-Francolí 1995, p. 244; Steinitz 2003, pp. 179–180; Toop 1999, pp. 134–135.
  45. ^ Richards 1992, [page needed].
  46. ^ Benedetti, Brown, Laramie, and Williams 2004, p. 134.
  47. ^ Brown 1994, pp. 177–178.
  48. ^ a b Froom 1994, p. 135.
  49. ^ a b Fether 2005, pp. 5, 36, and 51.
  50. ^ Fether 2005, p. 36.
  51. ^ Fether 2005, pp. 36, and 105.
  52. ^ Gagné 2012, p. 172.
  53. ^ Oteri n.d.
  54. ^ Anon. 2015.
  55. ^ He et al. 2006, [page needed].
  56. ^ Benson 2007, p. 228.
  57. ^ Brotbeck 2004, pp. 56–57.
  58. ^ Stockhausen 1964, p. 15, "Konträr-Klangräume: 6 Pauken, deren Stimmung ganztönig, und zur Klavierstimmung vierteltönig verschoben [Contrasting sound spaces: 6 timpani, the whole tone of which is tuned and quarter-tone shifted to the piano tuning]".
  59. ^ Everett, Walter (2009). The Foundations of Rock: From "Blue Suede Shoes" to "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Oxford University Press, USA. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-19-531023-8.
  60. ^ a b Hansen 2005, p. 285.
  61. ^ Tucker 1970, p. 7, "An arrow head pointing down over a note lowers it approximately a quarter step".
    Hettrick 1971, "Both pieces require performing techniques not encountered in traditional music for recorder. The most striking is the production of quarter-tones, notated as pitches in the chromatic scale to be lowered slightly. Charts provided by the composer give fingering for all half- and quarter-tones from the low f' up to a precarious c''''."
  62. ^ Tucker 1986, pp. 2–3, "'V' over a tone lowers it a quartertone … 'V' below a group of tones lowers that group a quartertone".
  63. ^ Hettrick 1971.
    Tucker 1970, p. 4, "An arrow head pointing down over a note lowers it approximately a quarter step".
  64. ^ Anon. 1997, p. 921.
  65. ^ Maxwell 1993, p. 103.
  66. ^ Read 1990, p. 76.
  67. ^ Ysaÿe 1924, pp. 24, 26, 39, and 43.

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