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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-06-26 13:12
I was just wondering, is the semitone harmonic interval allowed in music (in a larger chord perhaps), or is it avoided at all times because of the beat it creates? I know of only one piece that uses it, but only once at a staccato quaver (8th note).
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Author: William
Date: 2002-06-26 14:33
Note "bending" and bluesy "in between" pitches are common practices in jazz.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-06-26 16:16
Used all the time in the maj 7th chords ... the 7th is a semitone lower than the root, and the root or the seventh will move in the inversions to be beside (a semitone apart) the 7th.
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Author: Meredith
Date: 2002-06-26 23:00
Happens all of the time to me in band with the girl playing the next part down. Really needs to be played exactly in tune or it will sound really bad. Still, it is an offputting interval but quite widely used, especially in modern pieces.
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-06-27 13:01
that would probably explain it. the piece is a modern perpetuum mobile duet.
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Author: Gnomon
Date: 2002-06-28 07:48
I assume that by "the semitone interval", you mean a chord containing two notes which are a semitone apart, such as C and C#. This is certainly used a lot, but usually as a deliberate dissonance, to give a feeling of unease to the chord.
Intervals smaller than a semitone are called "microtones". They don't occur in the standard 12-tone equal tempered scale used by Western music since the 18th Century, but are often introduced by modern composers and are much used in Jazz. They are also common in music of other cultures such as Middle Eastern and Indian music. The most common microtone is probably the quarter tone. Ligeti often uses a large number of notes a quarter tone apart. For example C, C half #, C#, D half flat, D. He uses this to make a "musical texture".
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-06-29 16:29
Somebody may be interested in the Brannen-Kingma flutes which have been designed for specific fingerings for quarter tones over the whole range. Some modern composers are writing now for instrumentrs with this greatly extended range of notes.
Details see
http://www.brannenflutes.com/kingma.htm
Photo, scroll down at
http://www.kalvos.org/laberge.html
Will clarinets be next to do this?
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Author: Hiroshi
Date: 2002-06-29 19:39
For flute there is a web url for micro tones and multiphonics:
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/music/flute/virtual/main.html
This is Eva Kingmas URL, which mechanism Brannen Flute adopted as an option. http://www.etrade.nl/etrade/klant/2760/
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2002-06-30 04:16
Wow! What an amazingly comprehensive fingering chart site - microtones & eveything imaginable.
Is there a clarinet equivalent somewhere?
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