Polytempic Polymicrotonal Music: The Road Less Traveled

This book introduces polytempic polymicrotonality as a new musical aesthetic, with examples from the literature dating back to Renaissance art. It is the only book of its category in music that features polymicrotonality in composition or production, focusing on Charles Ivess' Universe Symphony.

Format: Hardback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 08 September 2022
Publisher: Jenny Stanford Publishing

This book presents polytempic polymicrotonality as a groundbreaking new musical aesthetic. It explores the creation of music with multiple microtonal tuning systems, providing a historical framework that demonstrates the prevalence of this tendency throughout human musical history. Polytempo serves as a tool that allows polymicrotonal structures to stand out from their background, functioning as a multidimensional frame or ground structure akin to the advancement of perspective in Renaissance art.

Historically, this book holds immense significance as it stands alone in its category or genre in the realm of music. It showcases examples of music literature that have laid the foundation for musical precedence in this area, with a particular focus on Charles Ivess' Universe Symphony, an unfinished masterpiece since 1925.

By delving into the complexities of polytempic polymicrotonality, this book offers musicians and music enthusiasts a fresh perspective on the art of composition and performance. It encourages them to embrace the richness and depth of musical possibilities that arise from the combination of multiple tuning systems, paving the way for a new era of creative expression in the world of music.

Weight: 520g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789814968294