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Available Definitions for Indicated Keywords
microtonal
The following potential definition(s) are available:
'
microtonal
music
can
refer
to any
music
containing
microtones. The
words
"microtone" and "microtonal"
were
coined
before
1912 by
maud
maccarthy
mann
in
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
only
for an
interval
actually
half
the
size
of a
semitone,
but
also
for all
intervals
-considerably-
smaller
than
a semitone. It may
have
been
even
slightly
earlier,
perhaps
as
early
as 1895,
that
the
mexican
composer
julián
carrillo,
writing
in
spanish
or
french,
coined
the
terms
microtono
micro-ton
and
microtonalismo
micro-tonalité
.'
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