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Genesis of a Music

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determined by the odd-number ratio component of the numerator, and another one, the Udentity determined by the odd-number component of the denominator. A ratio thus always belongs to two tonalities, an Otonality in accordance with its
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responsible for "the movement toward equal-tempered tuning, which meant that composers could not absorb the scales of other world traditions; and the urge to make music ever more instrumental and abstract."
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Genesis of a Music: Monophony: the relation of its music to historic and contemporary trends; its philosophy, concepts, and principles; its relation to ... and its application to musical instruments
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of his own invention (such as the "Surrogate Kithara, a struck-string, harplike instrument", and the guitar with movable frets he used to compose
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The book has been highly influential to succeeding generations of microtonal composers, including
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Genesis Of A Music: An Account Of A Creative Work, Its Roots, And Its Fulfillments
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and the long history of stagnation in the teaching of
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History: Music has appeared to have advanced up the
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Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media
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Harry Partch: An Anthology of Critical Perspectives
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11-limit tonality diamond
A closeup of a keyboard, whose keys are colorfully painted and marked with numbers
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microtonal
Harry Partch
equal temperament
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Alex Ross
Johann Sebastian Bach
tuning theory
just intonation
musical instruments
musical compositions
Lou Harrison
Ben Johnston
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Consonance and dissonance
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Odentity
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Undertone series
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