Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music Creation: My Portfolio of Scores at the Internet Archive, part VIII

Examples of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music are found in my archive.

Please explore my Internet Archive. 

So, rather than take snapshots of sections out of context and paste them in each blog, I thought that the interested reader would rather look through my work to see how I have used Polytempic Polymicrotonality, polymeter, and polyrhythms and microtones in general. 



List of Works in Score

Thoegersen freely distributes his scores via the Internet Archive. Scores for all the works below are available there. Dates indicate composition.

Drumset

  • 3:4:5:7, for Solo drumset #1 1995
  • Solo for Drumset #2 2022
  • Solo for Drumset #3 2022
  • Solo for Drumset #4 2022
  • Solo for Drumset #5 2022
  • Solo for Drumset VI 2022
  • STSOMA Drumsolo #7 2022
  • solo for drumset #8 2022
  • Solo for Drumset #9 2022
  • Solo for Drumset X: polymixtures 2022
  • Drumset solo #11 2022

Vocals and other instruments

  • Always Sleeping 2006
  • Facebook Song Cycle: What's on your mind, 2017

Solo works

  • Dreams Like Little Movies, for solo bassoon 2016
  • I Am A Force Of Nature, for solo trombone 2018
  • Jove Defeats Saturn, polymicrotonal saxophone solo 2011
  • May The Force Be With You, solo bass trombone 2017
  • Vibes Solo 2020
  • Vibraphone Solo 1b 2020
  • Solo for C Flute in Polymicrotonality 2018
  • Solo for Bb Clarinet 2002
  • Sit Down and Shut Up, for microtonal Horn in F 2011
  • Solo for Oboe: polymicrotonal modulations around a 12tet framework 2019
  • Trumpet Solo in Bb: Polymicrotonal modulations 2019
  • Solo for Contrabass Clarinet in Bb at the 8th tone 2024

Duos

  • Duo for Drumset and Piano in Polymeter 2022
  • Duo for Harp and Percussion in Polytempic Polymicrotonality 2019
  • Harp part for Duo for Harp and Percussion 2019
  • Masterdangler, for bassoon and guitar 2017
  • Music for 13tet Microtonal Flute and Drumset in Polytempo 2022
  • Music for Drumset and 22tet Microtonal Cello in Polymeter/polytempo 2022
  • Rondo: duet for two saxophones, 1997
  • Saturn Eats His Child, for piano and saxophone, 2007
  • PolyReinosaurus Rex, for bassoon and drumset 2016
  • Summer in Helsinki, microtonal duo for bassoon and violin 2017
  • Skullen a Coldie at the Servo w/M8ts, for two Bb Horns in Polytempic Polymicrotonality 2020
  • sub specie aeternitatis, for two vibraphones 2020

Trios

  • Wind Trio in Polymicrotonality 2023
  • Suite For Clarinet, Cello, and Drumset 2002

Quartets

  • Polymicrotonal Etude XVII, for mixed quartet 2024

Percussion ensemble

  • Percussion Series II: The Wrath of the "Connies" 2019
  • There's nothing that can't be done, for percussion quartet 2005

Quintets

  • Andante Democratico, for flute, bassoon, drumset, Horn in F and C Trumpet 2002
  • Brass Quintet #1 2001
  • Harmiklot's Revenge, for Woodwind Quintet 2005
  • Mixed Quintet #2, for Piano, viola, Harp, Guitar, and Marimba 2024

Large chamber ensembles

  • F 5 (standard tuning) 2005
  • Milko (polytempic polymicrotonal) 2013
  • Two Worlds: quartertone quintets in conversation 2003

Electroacoustics and acousmatics

  • Gorgeous Monstrosity 2005
  • Drums Of War 2005

Piano

  • Piano Collection I: #1-4 1999
  • Piano Collection 2 2002
  • Piano Collection 3 2010
  • Piano Collection 4 2016
  • Piano Collection 5 2016
  • Piano Collection VI: Mikrokomplexmos 2016
  • Piano Collection VII 2016
  • Piano Collection 8 2016
  • Piano Collection IX: 'Ten Finger' 2017
  • Piano Collection X: "Singularity" 2017
  • Piano Collection XI: "Ewe" 2017
  • Piano Collection XII 2017
  • Piano Collection XIII: Ode to Henry Cowell 2017
  • Piano Collection XIV 2017
  • Piano Collection 15a: I can't walk... 2017
  • Piano Collection XV: "Herniated Lumbar Disks" 2018
  • Piano Collection 16: in treatment 2019
  • Piano Collection 17 a-f 2020
  • Piano Collection 18: gratis mutandis 2022
  • Piano Collection 19: quod libet 2022
  • Piano Collection XX: "your interpretation" 2023
  • Piano Collection XXI: new beginning 2024
  • Piano Collection 22: Maximus 2024
  • Piano Collection 23: Maximus Part Deux 2024

String Quartets

  • String Quartet #1 1999-2022
  • String Quartet #2: Hypercube, for Polytempic Polymicrotonal Strings 2012
  • String Quartet #3 2013
  • String Quartet IV: Irrational Quartet 2018
  • String Quartet V 2018
  • String Quartet VI 2018
  • String Quartet VII: two-bow quartet 2019
  • String Quartet VIII: post post post structuralist 2019
  • String Quartet #9: Fractured Consciousness 2019
  • String Quartet X: irrational quartet ii 2019
  • String Quartet XI: 7 Cs 2019
  • String Quartet XII: BIG BAD MOTHER FUCKER FROM OUTER SPACE 2019
  • String Quartet xiii: poly-just intonation quartet 2019
  • String Quartet #14: "armageddonouttahere" 2019
  • String Quartet XV, in three movements, 2020
  • String Quartet XVa: It Is Now; a polymicrotonal quartet in monody (alternate version) 2019
  • String Quartet #16: COVID-19, the world pandemic 2020
  • String Quartet 17 in Polytempic Polymicrotonality, 2025-26 (score in progress)

Symphonies

  • Symphony I in Polytempic Polymicrotonality 2023
  • Symphony II: five short pieces for polytempic polymicrotonal orchestra 2013
  • Symphony III IN FULL POLYTEMPIC POLYMICROTONALITY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS 2024
  • Symphony IV in Polytempic Polymicrotonality, 2025

Comments

  1. PhilippJune 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM

    Great resource!

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    1. peter alexander thoegersenJune 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM

      I am eternally grateful to the Internet Archive. i even donate to them.

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  2. Joel TaylorJune 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM

    Nice to see this published here. Long live the Internet Archive.

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