Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - Why Isn't Just Intonation Used Much?
Some fixed just intonation scales and systems, such as the diatonic scale above, produce wolf intervals. The above scale allows a minor t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni
Dante Michaelangelo Benvenuto Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, music teacher and cond...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Xenharmonic: Encyclopedia - Xenharmonic
Xenharmonic music includes all tuning systems and music using those systems not using the common European twelve-tone equal temperament. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - Western Composers Who Specified Just Intonation
Most composers don't specify how instruments are to be tuned, although historically most have assumed one tuning system which was common ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - Non-western Tuning
In Indian music, the basic unaltered diatonic scale is considered to be 1/1, 9/8, 5/4, 4/3, 3/2, 27/16, 15/8, 2/1. This would appear prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Just Intonation: Encyclopedia Ii - Just Intonation - The Diatonic Scale In Just Intonation
It is possible to tune the familiar diatonic scale or chromatic scale in just intonation, in many ways, all of which make certain chords ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scale Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Scale Music - Scales In Western Music
Scales in traditional Western music generally consist of seven notes, made up of a root note and six other scale degrees whose pitches li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Accidental Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Accidental Music - Standard Use Of Accidentals
In most cases, a sharp raises the pitch of a note one semitone while a flat lowers it a semitone. A natural is used to cancel the effect ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Examples Of Modernism In Music
See: List of modernistic pieces. Modernism music - Expansion and destruction of tonality. Modernist movements include expansion to comm...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Busoni's Music
The majority of Busoni's works are for the piano. Busoni's music is typically contrapuntally complex, with several melodic lines unwindin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Biography
Busoni was born in Empoli in Italy, the only child of two professional musicians: his Italian/German mother a pianist, his Italian father...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Accidental Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Accidental Music - Courtesy Accidentals
Although a barline is always understood to cancel the effect of an accidental (except for a tied note), often publishers will use a court...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Accidental Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Accidental Music - Microtonal Notation
Composers of microtonal music have developed a number of notations for indicating the various pitches outside of standard notation. One s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Busoni's Editions
Busoni also edited of music by other composers. The best known of these is his edition of the complete Bach solo keyboard works, which he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scale Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Scale Music - Scale Degrees
A scale degree is a numeric position of a note within a scale ordered by increasing pitch. The simplest system is to name each degree aft...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - History Of Modernism In Music
Modernism music - Late 19th century origins. As with many other arts, the consciousness of modernity appeared before music which is now...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Alternative Categorizations
Despite Albright's definitions he points out examples of his three traits of modernism long before 1894. Orlando Gibbons' The Cries of Lo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Musical Modernism's Reception And Controversy
Many people have criticized musical modernism, including George Rochberg and Fred Lerdahl. Stanley Cavell (1976, p.187) describes the "bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ferruccio Busoni: Encyclopedia Ii - Ferruccio Busoni - Recordings
Busoni made a considerable number of piano rolls, and a small number of these have been re-recorded onto vinyl record or CD. His recorded...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modernism Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Modernism Music - Defining Musical Modernism
Musicologist Carl Dahlhaus restricted his definition of musical modernism to progressive music in the period 1890-1910: "The year 1890......   » Read the article