A quarter tone is a pitch halfway between the usual notes of a chromatic scale or an interval about half as wide (orally, or logarithmically) as a semitone...

A quarter tone clarinet is an experimental clarinet designed to play music using quarter tone intervals. Around 1900, Dr. Richard H. Stein, a Berlin musicologist...

using quarter tones: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T W Y See also Notes Further reading Thomas Adès Asyla calls for an upright piano tuned a quarter-tone...

Septimal quarter tone on C Just minor third on C Problems playing these files? See media help. A septimal quarter tone (in music) is an interval with...

others, represent comma flat or eighth-tone flat, or a quarter of a flat (not to be confused with the larger quarter tone). Although very rarely used, a triple...

order to avoid the misnomer "quarter tone" when speaking of the srutis of Indian music. Prior to this time the term "quarter tone" was used, confusingly, not...

may be used: A half sharp, or demisharp, or quarter tone () raises a note by approximately a quarter tone = 50 cents (Play), and may be marked with various...

quarter tone (50 cents). Each tone has its own name not repeated in different octaves, unlike systems featuring octave equivalency. The lowest tone is...

In Western music theory, a major second (sometimes also called whole tone or a whole step) is a second spanning two semitones (Play). A second is a musical...

especially using the quarter-tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones (e.g., in the 5th, 10th and 11th String Quartets), fifth-tones (Sixteenth String...

A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered...

tritone is defined as a musical interval spanning three adjacent whole tones (six semitones). For instance, the interval from F up to the B above it...

hand) to read familiar 12 tone notation. Various composers, including Charles Ives, experimented with music for quarter-tone pianos. 24 EDO also approximates...

pitches outside of standard notation. One such system for notating quarter tones, used by the Czech Alois Hába and other composers, is shown. In the...

of the perfect fifth, enabling the instrument to play in all keys. In 12-tone equal temperament, the frequencies of the tempered perfect fifth are in the...

systems being used depending on the situation. A common notation for quarter tones involves writing the fraction ¼ next to an arrow pointing up or down...

instance, the limit of the just perfect fourth (4:3) is 3, but the just minor tone (10:9) has a limit of 5, because 10 can be factored into 2 × 5 (and 9 into...

compositions, including the quarter tone scale (24-tet: 50 cents) utilized in his pieces for two pianos in quarter tones. He also used scales of up to...

octave. Ratio 225:224 (7.7 cents). A quarter tone is half the width of a semitone, which is half the width of a whole tone. It is equal to exactly 50 cents...

Greek musical scale which contains four notes tuned to approximately quarter tone pitches, bracketed (as pairs) between four fixed pitches. For example...

24 equal steps (24 equal temperament), where a quarter tone equals one-half of a semitone in a 12 tone equally-tempered scale. In this notation system...

the terms ditone and semiditone are specific for Pythagorean tuning, while tone and tritone are used generically for all tuning systems. Despite its name...

Demany, Laurent, and Françoise Armand. 1984. "The Perceptual Reality of Tone Chroma in Early Infancy". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 76:57–66...

sadness in music, and research shows that this mirrors its use in speech, as a tone similar to a minor third is produced during sad speech. It is also a quartal...

cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 cents each...

ditone (or major third) is an interval formed by two major tones. In Pythagorean tuning, a major tone has a size of about 203.9 cents (frequency ratio 9:8)...

prime, or perfect prime) may refer to the (pseudo-)interval formed by a tone and its duplication (in German, Unisono, Einklang, or Prime), for example...

(5:4) major third in quarter-comma meantone. This is the source of the name: the note exactly halfway between the bounding tones of the major third is...

minor third (Play) in 12-tone equal temperament, but this does not hold true in most tunings. In any tuning close to quarter-comma meantone it will be...

Taking Back Sunday is an American rock band from Amityville, New York. The band was formed by guitarist Eddie Reyes and bassist Jesse Lacey in 1999. The...