Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Composition: the Syllabus, part III

 A Quasi Syllabus for this Blog

Blog Ideas

  • Contrapuntal Tempos, or a Counterpoint of Tempos 
  • Divisions of the Whole Note 
  • Divisions of the Whole Tone 
  • Contour Creation/ Analysis of Polymicrotonal Lines
  • Myriad New Intervallic Structures
  • Harmony Resulting from Vertical "Cadence" Points- vertical structures
    • Intervallic Compression of Polymicrotonal Systems
    • Centricity
    • Simultaneities
    • Panmicrotonal Harmony: tonal vs atonal, or tonal sublation
    • What is a Polymicrotonal Chord?
  • Counterpoint of Microtonal Systems
  • Pitch Organization  
    • Pitch Cells vs Gamut
    • Tetrachords
    • Serial Techniques? 
  • "Just Noticeable Difference" and Microtonal Hearing
  • Composer Intent
  • Nancarrow-Ives-Cowell-Marie-Xenakis
  • Alternate Staves? Fatter spaces and lines for microtones? 
  • Human Performance Strategies
  • Manifold Electronic Realizations

In many regards, these topics have already been broached in other blogs and may not require their own section...

Comments

  1. Joel TaylorJune 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM

    These are all interesting topics. To the Pitch Organization section I would add *Spectral organization and * Different pitch class gamut for different pitch height areas

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    1. peter alexander thoegersenJune 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM

      I don't compose spectral music. This is my own personal methodology, nothing more. If and when I do compose spectrally, then I will add that.

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  2. Joel TaylorJune 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM

    Any one of these syllabus topics could provide multiple blogs worth of discussion.

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