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Microtones

Here are entered works on musical intervals smaller than the semitone.

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• Musical intervals and scales

• Microtonal music

• Quarter-tones
• Third-tones

• Quatuor à cordes : au système de quart de ton (Universal-Edition, 1921), by Alois Hába (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Phantaisie : pour violon seul, au système de quart de ton, op. 9a (Universal-Edition, 1923), by Alois Hába (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• On the Musical Scales of Various Nations (extracted from Journal of the Society of the Arts, 1885), by Alexander John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The twenty-two musical srutis of the Hindus: (The Bengal academy of music, 1886), by Sourindro Mohun Tagore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Grundlagen der Musik (B. G. Teubner, 1927), by Illo Peters (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essai sur la gamme. (Gauthier--Villars, 1906), by Maurice Gandillot (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Contributions to the history of musical scales. (Govt. print. off., 1902), by Charles Kasson Wead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der charakter der tonarten, als habilitationsschrift der Philosophischen fakultät der Universitat Marburg eingereicht (G. Bosse, 1923), by Hermann Stephani (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kaleidophone : new resources of melody and harmony : pitch scales in relation to chord structures : an aid to composers, performers, arrangers, teachers, song-writers, students, conductors, critics, and all who work with music (M. Witmark, 1940), by Joseph Schillinger and Lyle Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modal trends in modern music (Van-del offset press;, 1941), by Horace Alden Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des sources naturelles de la musique ; recherches et déductions dans la théorie musicale et les harmoniques. (Fischbacher, 1903), by G. Paillard-Fernel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An essay on the growth of the musical scale and of modern harmony (Novello, Ewer & co., 1877), by J. M. Capes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The feeling-value of unmusical tone-intervals (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1906), by Louville Eugene Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vom Wesen des Musikalischen, ein Lehrbuch der Zwölftöne-musik. (Schlesinger (R. Lienau); [etc., etc., 1923), by Josef Matthias Hauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Intervals, chords and ear training for young pianoforte students (Oliver Ditson Company, 1897), by Jean Parkman Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of modern musical tonality; intended for self-study, as an introduction to the study of harmony. (G. Schirmer, 1876), by J. H. Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scales, intervals, harmony (revised method harmony instruction) eliminating the old figured bass system. (J. Fischer & Bro., 1916), by Dirk Haagmans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Modern scale studies : for the violin (O. Ditson, 1927), by Max Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etude sur les intervalles diatoniques et chromatiques comme préparation à l'étude de l'harmonie (Le Diapason, 1914), by Paul Gilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ästhetische wirkung der intervalle (G.B. Leopold, 1908), by Arno Guido Gustav Faldix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Studien zur Geschichte des simultanen Intervalls ... (Rats- und Univ.-Buchdr. von Adlers Erben, 1906), by Arno Guido Gustav Faldix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Bedeutung von Dur und Moll für den musikalischen Ausdruck. Auf Grund einer Untersuchung Schubert-, Schumann- und Franz'scher Lieder ... (Druck der Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1910), by Eugen Becker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il diapason differenziale; instrumento acustico tascabile che risolve le differenze dei suoni della scala musicale esatta ragguagliati con quelli della scala temperata. Dimonstrazione. (Tip. di G. Ciotola, 1886), by Filippo Natali (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origines et variations de notre tonalité, son avenir; étude théorique et historique (E. Dentu, 1885), by Louis Pagnerre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the study of Indian music; an attempt to reconcile modern Hindustani music with ancient musical theory and to propound an accurate and comprehensive method of treatment of the subject of Indian musical intonation (Longmans, Green, and co., 1913), by E. Clements (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The rāgas of Tanjore, songs and hymns from the répertoire of the Karnatic singer, Natrajan, arranged in staff notation (The Dharwar gayan samaj, 1920), by E. Clements and Vaidyanatha Iyer Natarajan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns. (Coleman-Ross company, inc., 1947), by Nicolas Slonimsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The physical foundation of music; being an exposition of the acoustical researches of Dr. Rudolph Kœnig of Paris. (Printed by W. Clowes and sons, limited, 1893), by Silvanus Phillips Thompson and Royal Institution of Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The distinctive characteristics of ancient Irish melody: the scales. A plea for restoration and preservation. Being a lecture read on Monday evening, 15th February, 1897, before the National literary society. (E. Ponsonby, 1897), by James Cooksey Culwick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of modern musical tonality : intended for self-study, as an introduction to the study of harmony (G. Schirmer, 1897), by J. H. Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psycho-harmonial philosophy. [Based upon the musical scale] (Harmonial pub. co., 1910), by P. Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité de l'art musical, précédé de Échelle tricolore, où, après unee réfutation du système de notation usité et une exposition lumineuse du nouveau procédé, on trouve réunis les principes de la mélodie et de l'harmonie dont il fait voir l'ensemble et les rapports ... (A. Choisnet, 1856), by Eugène Cornier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of modern musical tonality; intended for self-study, as an introduction to the study of harmony. (G. Schirmer, 1907), by J. H. Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harmony manual (W.W. Whitney, 1878), by Walter Hewitt and Frederick H. Pease (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sonometro; misura matematica del suono musicale. Metodo teorico-pratico per la giusta divisione della scala cromatica con apposito apparcchio per accordare i pianoforte, e gli organi. (Stab. tipo-stereotipo del cav. A. Morano, 1881), by Rosario Alessi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sulle gamme e sui suoni di combinazione (Fratelli Bocca, 1898), by Oscar Chilesotti (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über die mathematische Bestimmung der musikalischen Intervalle (Wiedmann'sche Buchhandlung, 1846), by Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etudes sur l'origine du systéme musical. Premier mémoire (chez Bachelier, 1852), by Auguste Barbereau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Grösse der musikalischen Intervalle als Grundlage der Harmonie (J. Springer, 1873), by Heinrich Bellermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern organ tuning; the how and why? clearly explaining the nature of the organ pipe and the system of equal temperament, together with an historic record of the evolution of the diatonic scale from the Greek tetrachord (W. Reeves, 1902), by Hermann Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über die Empfindlichkeit des Intervallsinnes (W. Engelmann, 1889), by Iwan Schischmánow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurzer Ueberblick über das griechische Tonsystem (Druck von H.W. Schmidt, 1875), by Rudolf Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intervallenlehre der Griechen. (Auf kosten des verfassers, 1818), by Friedrich von Drieberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valeurs numériques des notes de la gamme (L. Danel, 1827), by M. Delezenne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur Konsonanztheorie (1923), by Arvo Sotavalta (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern enharmonic scale as the basis of the chromatic element in music; a new phase in the science of harmony. A lecture delivered at the Toronto Conservatory of Music under the auspices of the Toronto Clef Club Dec. 1, 1906 (Boston Music Co., G. Schirmer, Jr., 1907), by J. Humfrey Anger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Étude sur les diverses interprétations ou évaluations de la gamme diatonique majeure ut, ré, mi, fa, sol, la, si, ut précédée de notions élémentaires de calcul musical par Frcs. Agtn. Renaud ... (Tolra et Haton, 1871), by François Augustin Renaud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Musical scale (Oliver Ditson & company, 1867), by Horace P. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geng gui yuan yin (Miao shi, 1866), by Tian Miao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tonbestimmung und Temperatur. (Weidmann, 1852), by Moritz Wilhelm Drobisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lü lü tong jin tu shuo : 1 juan ; [Lü yi 1 juan] (Miao shi, 1861), by Tian Miao (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical scale builder for major and minor scales. (C.F. Summy Co., 1917), by Robert J. Ring and Paul Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Études de science musicale (Chez l'auteur, 1898), by Antoine Dechevrens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Note sur l'acoustique et la théorie musicale (Delor-Chabou, 1904), by F. Boyer-Cung (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elementary theory : comprising the study of scales and intervals (Conservatory Press, 1911), by J. Lawrence Erb (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analytical and critical synopsis of a selection of piano forte literature, &c given before the Montreal Literary Club, on Thursday, 25th May, 1865 (Dawson;, 1865), by James Pech (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern enharmonic scale as the basis of the chromatic element in music a new phase in the science of harmony : a lecture delivered at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (under the auspices of the Toronto Clef Club), December 1st, 1906 (W. Tyrrell, 1907), by J. Humfrey Anger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gospel in the major scale (W. Biggs, 1913), by Fannie C. Fisher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical hints on playing at sight (s.n., 1899), by V. A. L. E. (page images at HathiTrust)
• A primer of modern musical tonality, intended for self-study, as an introduction to the study of harmony. (G. Schirmer, 1876), by J. H. Cornell (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the basis of music, containing an elementary account of the nature of musical notes and chords ... (C.F. Hodgson & Son, 1877), by Alexander John Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irish music : being an examination of the matter of scales, modes, and keys, with practical instructions and examples for players (An Cló-Ċumann, 1903), by Richard Henebry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tres canones harmonici. (Apud Weidmannos, 1881), by Adolf Stamm (page images at HathiTrust)
• God save the queen, varied in twenty-four forms. Supplement to A treatise on Byzantine music. (A. Gardner, 1895), by Stephen G. Hatherly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Musiksysteme in ihren Principien, ihrer Entwickelung und ihren Consequenzen ... (Selbstverlag des Verfassers, 1882), by Anton Krisper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Music and science : address of the retiring president, Charles Kasson Wead, read before the Philosophical Society of Washington, January 15, 1910. (The Society, 1910), by Charles Kasson Wead (page images at HathiTrust)
• The musical scale of the Arabs. Medieval organ pipes and their bearing on the history of the scale. The natural diatonic scale. (The Chemical Pub. Co., 1900), by Charles Kasson Wead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie mathématique de l'échelle musicale (Gauthier-Villars, 1913), by Alphonse Vaucher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die viertelstonstufen im Messtonale von Montpellier (Ph. Brönnersche Buchdruckerei (P. Seitz), 1911), by Joseph Gmelch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of scales : for piano pupils of all grades (Willis Music, 1915), by Carl William Grimm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Note sur le ton des orchestres et des orgues. (L. Danel, 1855), by M. Delezenne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lü yin hui kao : [4 juan (Li yue ju, 1838), by Zhilu Qiu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beobachtungen über Zweiklänge. (W. Engelmann, 1900), by Felix Krueger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über die verschiedenen Bestimmungen der Tonverhältnisse und die Bedeutung des Pythagoreischen oder reinen Quinten-systemes für unsere heutige Musik ... (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1858), by Carl Ernst Naumann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie de la tonalité (Gauthier-Villars, 1864), by A. Barbereau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quintes, octaves, secondes et polytonie, etude documentaire sur l'art musical. (Schott, 1922), by Paul Gilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simplified sight-singing (Elkan-Vogel co., inc., 1940), by Allan Nern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sound, ears, and scales (Technical Extension Service, Washington State University, 1964), by Eugene W. Greenfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Vom Wesen des Musikalischen (Waldheim-Eberle, 1989), by Josef Matthias Hauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Melodie und Skala (C.F. Peters, 1913), by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dorian and Phrygian reconsidered from a non-harmonic point of view (Novello, 1902), by Alfred J. Hipkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le quattro scale diatoniche della moderna tonalita (s.n., 1874), by Alessandro Kraus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Bildung der Tonleiter : ein populär-wissenschaftlicher Vortrag gehalten zum Besten des philosophischen Unterstützungs-Vereines der wiener Universität am 20. März 1868 (Wilhelm Braumüller, 1868), by Viktor von Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kratkai︠a︡ muzykalʹnai︠a︡ grammatika (P. I︠U︡rgensona, 1895), by Aleksandr Ivanovich Rubet︠︡s (page images at HathiTrust)
• Turner's complete set of scales for the pianoforte : carefully fingered from Dreyschock, Plaidy and Köler. (New England Conservatory of Music, 1907), by A. D. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Alten Kirchenmodi; historisch und akustisch. Entwickeit. (C.G. Kahnt, 1870), by I︠U︡riĭ Karlovich Arnolʹd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighty musical sentences to illustrate chromatic chords (Cramer, 1875), by G. A. Macfarren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lü yin hui kao : [4 juan (Li yue ju, 1838), by Zhilu Qiu (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our musical idiom (Open Court Pub. Co., 1986), by Ernst Bacon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Discurso histórico acerca del origen y progresos de la ciencia música (en la Imprenta del Diario, por Pedro Pablo Husson de Lapazaran, 1801), by J. M. C. B. (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.