There's a perpetually propagated myth that if you have absolute pitch, then if you listen to music that is out of tune, you have a bad experience. If there is any truth to this myth, it's definitely not an absolute. Some people may be disturbed by … [Read more...]
Define: Microtones
Division of the octave into intervals smaller than the half-tone, the smallest interval used within the tempered scale. Examples include Fokker's thirty-one-note organ, Partch's forty-three-note percussion instruments, etc. Microtonal music, … [Read more...]