I will play some original and non-original technology-assisted microtonal excerpts and performances to back up the successful method of these technologies.

Second, I will demonstrate the use of newly emerged technologies and techniques for the performance of microtonal music. I propose to address these two factors in my presentation first by presenting a brief exploration of the new trends in microtonal composition and their relations to the acoustics of sound, tuning systems, and transcultural music exploration. I believe this lack of exploration is twofold: 1) unfamiliarity of the composition instructors with the microtonal music literature, and 2) the risk factor associated with the performance of microtonal projects written by the students in a composition course. Including Microtonal Writing Techniques and Technology Assisted Performance Practice in Post-tonal Composition Syllabiĭespite a long history of implementation and an ample number of successful compositions and performances, techniques for microtonal music writing do not claim a definite place in the regular syllabi of post-tonal composition. Tabatabie PhD Candidate, University of Utah tonescape files to a number of other audio formats:

Future releases will offer traditional staff-notation, as well as both non-traditional modifications of staff-notation and many other types of musical notations.įor the purposes of sharing your compositions with people who do not have Tonescape ®, in addition to the native format, you can also export your. Version 1.0 of Tonescape ® offers Pitch-Height™ notation, the most obvious and basic form of musical pitch representation. tonescape file), you not only hear the music, but you also see the notes highlighted in real-time on the score - in any of several different types of musical notation systems - and on the Lattice View as well. When you play your composition in Tonescape ® 's native Musical Piece format (the. (Tonescape ® tunings may actually have up to 7 dimensions, but of course for systems with more than 3 dimensions, they can only be projected into 3 dimensions.) Tonescape ® offers the Lattice View as a way to see a rotatable 3-dimensional geometrical model of the mathematics of your tuning. Once you are familiar with these basic operations, you can dig further into the help topics by learning how to edit the sample files, and finally, how to create your own original files. Each help section will begin by showing you how to open, view, and listen to a sample file. Tonescape ® comes bundled with several examples of each type of file, so that you may simply open them and jump right in to start learning your way around. There are three native types of files used by Tonescape ® : Overview of Tonescape ® microtonal music composition software CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD TONESCAPE ®Ī music composition application which allows the user to create any imaginable tuning and compose music using those tunings Ī valuable analytical tool which aids in the understanding of tuning theory and the various qualities of different types of musical tunings Ī fun and easy-to-use application offering hands-on exploration of historical issues with which music-theorists have been concerned, thus facilitating a deeper understanding of music-history.

Microtonal music compositions