Microtones Assignment

Music Composition Assignments William Wieland

Reading/Listening Component — Quarter Tones created with Finale:

Microtone Article from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians — a little over one page (The Microtonal instruments article is much longer.)

List of quarter tone pieces (Wikipedia) — including Charles Ives’ Three Quarter-Tone Pieces, for two pianos.

Microtone (music) (Wikipedia)

Composition Component — Compose using microtones. Because this assignment may be time consuming, only one minute of music is required. However, you are welcome to create more.