microtonal

Speaking as an on-again-off-again microtonal composer, the Sims in particular seemed well rehearsed; perhaps the strings 'reduction to around a dozen helped.

Manifold intake Matthew Guerrieri 2008

But the other main musical issue is that in Indian music, you have this very complicated system, or complex system, I should say, of ornamentation that, again in the West, it's kind of glossed over by being referred to as microtonal or quarter tones, and it's much more complex than that.

Saxophone Stylings, With A South-Asian Flair 2009

Taking full advantage of the udderbot's tonal capacity, the majority of music on the program is "microtonal", i.e. using notes and intervals that fall "between the keys" of the piano.

UC-IMC xenjacob 2010

I just cannot be doing with that allegedly "microtonal" singing and the suffocating tweeness.

Word Magazine - Comments NeilW 2009

While the ability to hear aspects of your music before it is ever played by a human being is undeniably alluring-I confess to being one of the folks who uses such tools and it certainly has helped me get a fuller grounding in the kind of microtonal melodic and harmonic shapes that have obsessed me for decades-other things are lost.

NewMusicBox 2009

A six-story-high microtonal xylophone that can produce smaller intervals between achievable tones than are heard when playing conventional Western musical scales.

George Heymont: There's Art Right at Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010

A six-story-high microtonal xylophone that can produce smaller intervals between achievable tones than are heard when playing conventional Western musical scales.

George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010

A six-story-high microtonal xylophone that can produce smaller intervals between achievable tones than are heard when playing conventional Western musical scales.

George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips! George Heymont 2010

Two audience members were actually the composers Jeff Myers, whose microtonal and vaguely minimalist “Dopamine” began the concert, and Caleb Burhans, whose “Contritus” received its world premiere.

In performance: JACK quartet 2010

The 2007 solo viola work, "Spiral XI: Mother and Child," composed for and performed (superbly) by Ung's wife, Susan, sounded like a microtonal deconstruction of unaccompanied Bach, paralleled by the violist's own Southeast Asian vocalizations.

In performance: Chinary Ung 2010