The Diapason Press

The gamut of contemporary music cannot be complete without microtonal music, compositions that make use of pitches selected from tuning systems with more than twelve pitches per octave. Such music has been written in a variety of systems, sometimes derived from just intonations (based on acoustically pure fifths, major thirds, and sometimes harmonic sevenths and other inteverals), sometimes from multiple divisions (which arise if the octave is divided into more than twelve equal parts), sometimes from still other systems. The series Corpus Microtonale intends to make available representative examples in well-organized and well-cared-for editions, which explain the intricacies inherent in this sometimes esoteric music to the interested performer and student.