Microtonal musicians Microtonal musicians Adriaan Daniël Fokker ( 1887– 1972) was a Dutch physicist and musician. Fokker, a cousin of the aeronautical engineer Anthony Fokker, studied mining technology at the University of Technology in Delft and physics at the University of Leiden with Hendrik Lorentz, where he earned his doctorate in 1913. He continued his studies with Albert Einstein, Ernest Rutherford and William Bragg. In his 1913 thesis, he derived the Fokker-Planck equation along with Max Planck. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adriaan Fokker"
Alois Hába ( June 21, 1893 – November 18, 1973) was a Czech composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones. His brother Karel Hába was also a composer, and their father was a musician. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alois Hába"
Antoine de Bertrand (also Anthoine) ( 1530/ 1540 – probably 1581) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Early in his life he was a prolific composer of secular chansons, and late in his life he wrote hymns and canticles, under the influence of the Jesuits. He was murdered by Protestants during the French Wars of Religion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antoine de Bertrand"
Benjamin Burwell Johnston, Junior (born March 15, 1926 in Macon, Georgia) is one of the best known composers writing in the just intonation system. He is best known for extending Harry Partch's experiments in just tuning to traditional instruments through his system of notation. Johnston taught composition and theory at the University of Illinois from 1951 to 1983. Johnston began as a traditional composer of art music before working with Partch. After working with Partch he studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College. It was in fact Partch himself who set Johnston up with Milhaud. It should be noted that Johnston struggled with just how to integrate just intonation into his compositions for a number of years. Since 1960 Johnston has used, almost exclusivly, a system of microtonal notation based on the rational intervals of just intonation. Johnston also worked with John Cage, who encouraged him to pursue the composition of just-tuned music for traditional instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ben Johnston"
Charles Edward Ives ( October 20, 1874– May 19, 1954) was an American composer of classical music. He is widely regarded as one of the first American classical composers of international significance. Ives's music was largely ignored during his life, and many of his works went unperformed for many years. Over time, Ives would come to be regarded as one of the "American Originals", a composer working in a uniquely American style, with American folk tunes woven through his music, and a reaching sense of the possibilities in music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Charles Ives"
Divide by Pi is a Chicago-area duo consisting of Aaron Krister Johnson on synthesizer and Andy Hasenpflug on electronic percussion. They formed in 2003 shortly after Hasenpflug moved to Chicago, although they had known each other from 1988, since they both attended undergraduate music school together at SUNY Purchase. ...more on Wikipedia about "Divide by Pi"
Easley Blackwood, (b. April 21, 1933), the son of Easley Blackwood Sr., is a professor of music, a concert pianist, a composer of music, some using unusual tunings, and the author of books on music theory, including his research into the properties of microtonal tunings and traditional harmony. ...more on Wikipedia about "Easley Blackwood Jr." The view on http://www.shortopedia.com.
Eivind Groven ( October 8, 1901– February 8, 1977) was a Norwegian microtonal composer and music-theorist. He was from the fylke (province or county) of Telemark in southern Norway and had his background in the folk music of the area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eivind Groven"
Ezra Sims (born January 16, 1928 in Birmingham, Alabama) is one of the pioneers in the field of microtonal composition. He invented a system of notation which was adopted by many microtonal composers after him, including Joseph Maneri. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ezra Sims"
Frank Denyer ( London, 1943 – ) is a music composer. Also a trained pianist, Denyer does not compose for the piano. Instead, he focuses on creating music for new, unusual, and structurally modified instruments. Due to his use of non-Western instruments, much of Denyer's music is microtonal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Denyer"
Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an avant-garde composer and guitarist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glenn Branca"
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Harold Fortuin (1964-) is an American composer, pianist, and designer of hardware and software for electronic music. He has written both traditional instrumental and vocal music as well as electronic and computer music, and has a number of performances and recordings to his credit. His work has often been in the realm of microtonal music. Aside from the standard 12-tone equal temperament, he has composed in equal temperaments of 19, 22, and 31 notes to the octave. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harold Fortuin"
Harry Partch ( June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer. He was one of the first composers to work with microtonal scales, writing much of his music for instruments he built himself, tuned in 11- limit just intonation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Harry Partch"
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Henk Badings ( January 17, 1907 - June 26, 1987) was a self-taught Dutch composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Henk Badings"
Henry Ward Poole (1825-1890) ...more on Wikipedia about "Henry Ward Poole"
Ivan Alexandrovich Vïshnegradsky (1893-1979, also Wyschnegradsky, Wyshnegradsky , Wischnegradsky, or Wishnegradsky) was a Russian composer primarily known for his microtonal compositions, including the quarter tone scale, though he used scales of up to 71 divisions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ivan Vïshnegradsky"
James Tenney ( August 10, 1934 in Silver City, NM) is an American composer and influential music theorist. He studied piano with Eduard Steuermann and composition with Chou Wen-chung, Lionel Nowak, Paul Boepple, Henry Brant, Carl Ruggles, Kenneth Gaburo, Lejaren Hiller, and Edgard Varèse. His students include John Luther Adams. He also studied information theory under Lejaren Hiller, and composed stochastic early computer music before turning almost completely to writing for instruments with the occasional tape delay, often using just intonation and alternative tunings. His work deals simply and artfully with perception ( For Ann (rising), see Shepard tone), just intonation ( Clang, see gestalt), stochastic elements (Music for Player Piano), information theory ( Ergodos, see Ergodic theory), and with what he calls 'swell' ( Koan: Having Never Written A Note For Percussion (for John Bergamo)), which is basically arch form. His pieces are most often tributes and subtitled as such. As his friend Philip Corner says, For Ann (rising), "must be optimistic! (Imagine the depressing effectiveness of it -- he could never be so cruel -- downward)..." ...more on Wikipedia about "James Tenney"
Joseph Gabriel Esther Maneri (born February 9, 1927, Brooklyn) is an American jazz composer, saxophone and clarinet player. His son is violinist Mat Maneri. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe Maneri"
Joe Monzo (born January 5, 1962) is an American microtonal composer and tuning-theorist who has authored books and multiple webpages on music theory. He specializes in applying tuning-theory and computing to microtonal musical composition, and tutors people in computing and music composition. He was born and rasied in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and since 2000 has been living in San Diego, California. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joe Monzo"
John Herbert Foulds, ( November 2 1880 – April 25 1939), was a British composer of classical music. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Foulds"
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Johnny Reinhard is a microtonal composer and virtuoso bassoonist. He employs many avant-garde techniques in his bassoon performance such as glissando and multiphonics, as well as using just intonation and other microtonal tuning systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "Johnny Reinhard"
Julián Carrillo Trujillo ( January 28, 1875 – September 9, 1965) was a mexican composer and musical scientist, who discovered the Thirteenth Sound. ...more on Wikipedia about "Julián Carrillo"
Kyle Gann (born November 21 1955) is a composer and music critic born in Dallas, Texas. As a critic for The Village Voice and other publications he is a supporter of progressive music including such Downtown movements as postminimalism and totalism. As a composer his works fall generally into three categories: ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyle Gann"
La Monte Young (born October 14 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music. Both his Fluxus influenced and " minimal" compositions question the nature of music and often stress elements of performance not normally indicated. He is normally listed as one of the "big four" minimalists along with Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Terry Riley, despite having little in common with Glass and Reich. ...more on Wikipedia about "La Monte Young"
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