Mikrotone: Small is Beautiful - Volume II [MICROTONAL MUSIC JOURNAL]

Salzburg, Austria: Mackinger Verlag, 2019. First Edition . Soft cover. Fine (As New). 8.25" x 11.75. A volume of selected papers presented at the 2017 international symposium 'Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful' at the University Mozarteum in Salzburg, organized by the International Ekmelic Music Society. The Society was founded in 1981 by Franz Richter Herf and Rolf Maedel and caused Salzburg to become a new center of microtonal music. CONTENTS: Prologue [Castilla-Ávila]; An Introduction to Microtonality in Western Music Tradition [Cancialosi]; Obtaining Microtones on Open-String Instruments: A Technique from 15th-Century Turkish Manuscripts [Çayli]; The Keyboard expands - Working on the New Quarter-Tone Piano [Järvi]; 'Das Kreuz der Verlobten' - the Story of a microtonal Opera [Klinkenberg]; On the Benefit of renotating Harry Partch's Music for understanding and analyzing his harmonic Language [Ralli]; A sonic Function Model for microtonal Music [Soyka]; Special Properties of 15 Equal Tuning and its Relationship to Others [Jordan]; 34-tone golden scales notation [Marco-Franco]. 69 pages. CONDITION: A Fine bright, tight, square, unmarked, uncreased copy with negligible shelf-wear. This handsome copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag with archival backing board.