Techniques of Polytempic Polymicrotonal Composition

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,...

  What is Polytempo?   What is tempo? First of all, we must understand what tempo is. So I will explore this topic as deliberately, naively, and as guilelessly as I possibly can, to ask the most basic questions without the pomp, rhetoric, and expectations of my doctorate, telling both me that I damn well know what tempo is, when in fact, do I? Jean-Baptiste Lully thought he knew what tempo was when he accidentally crushed his toe with his staff, pounding the tempo onto the floor while conducting Te Deum . Lully was 'tempoed' to death. There is no more concrete example of tempo than this. Now imagine three more Lullys pounding the floor at different rates of speed with their staffs. This is polytempo, and hopefully not the accidental polydeaths of the three additional Lullys.  Today's version of this would not be so much the conductor, but perhaps a drummer? Or more precisely, the click-track pounds the tempo into the ears of hapless musicians via headphones for them to p...