Quarter tones / by 262792 Mann, Susan

The Quarter-Tone System of Charles Ives by Harry Perison

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Mikrotonální Hába: pět poznámek k Hábovu kompozičnímu stylu by Lubomír Spurný

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Námořník Mikuláš Viléma Petrželky : k sociálně-kulturním kontextům díla by Ondřej Pivoda

“…Despite of the fact Petrželka used a varied set of avant-garde expression elements (jazz band, Sprechgesang-like recitation, quarter-tones etc.), his cantata have many features in common with Bouře, a late-romantic cantata composed by Vítězslav Novák in 1910. …”
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Cultural Tolerance and Music Preference: The Effect of Interdisciplinary Lessons on Students’ Aesthetic Response by Mário Gomes de Figueirêdo, Elizeu Batista Borloti

“…Such findings may be explained by subjects’ familiarity with the rhythm present in African music and lack of familiarity with the quarter tones featured in Asian vocal music.…”
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RUSSIAN AVANT-GARDE MUSIC OF THE EARLY 20<SUP>TH</SUP> CENTURY IN THE MODERN CULTURE by O. A. Lyzlova

“…Kulbin and proceeding to investigate theoretically the technique of quarter tones as well as to use it for music and new instruments’ creation. …”
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Introduction: Spectral Thinking by Cross, J

“…A tiny, swirling fragment from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé is transformed into the rapid, repeating arpeggios of the opening as a kind of representation of a sine wave,3 but which might equally be understood as the sound of a tolling bell: a single, distorted spectrum (four notes on the piano are tuned down a quarter tone), like that heard in Strasbourg, each ‘attack’ slowly fading across four bars, while the cello enters periodically with a sustained ‘hum’. …”