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microtone Mus.|ˈmaɪkrəʊtəʊn|
[f. micro- 1 + tone n.]
An interval smaller than a semitone.
1920Outward Bound Oct. 77/1 The ancient Greeks also recognised and used these microtones. The Greeks found twenty-four in the octave and the Indians usually recognise twenty-two. 1927Observer 23 Oct. 14 But these microtones (seventy-two in the octave) give quarters of the untempered chromatic semitone. 1946Mod. Music Spring 113 The Oriental sound of Hovhaness' music is realized with occidental instruments not by preparing the instruments, nor by employing microtones, but solely through the character of the melody. 1957Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music iii. 170 Volume was controlled by varying the exposure;..portamento by a rapid series of micro-tones. 1970W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) 527/1 Long a structural feature of Asian music, the use of microtones in Western music, although far from new, has been..far less extensive.
Hence microˈtonal a., of or pertaining to a microtone or microtones; employing or producing microtones; microtoˈnality; microˈtonally adv.
1942Scrutiny XI. 6 The quarter-tone or scruti is the microtonal interval between notes of the ‘scale’. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) v. 106 The microtonally flatted fifth also occurs. Ibid. x. 234 The blues scale..gives all the opportunity needed for microtonality. 1946Mod. Music Spring 113 The microtonality of Alois Haba and others presents an Oriental characteristic not found in any of the music discussed above. 1959Chambers's Encycl. IX. 627/2 The microtonality of the Czech Alois Haba (1893–), who cut the scale into 1/4- and 1/6- tones. 1967Times 29 May 6/4 Glissandos on the microtonal harp were pure magic. 1974Country Life 24 Jan. 136/1 Mozart..as an infant..could remember microtonal differences of tuning in instruments heard weeks previously. |