r/microtonal

6.9K archived posts · May 2012 – Sep 2026

microtonal, xenharmonic, whatever-you-call-it...

r/microtonal

anything not 12-tone equal temperament.

Created Apr 23, 2012

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Videos, music, questions, discussions about instruments, software, theory like just intonation and temperament, and anything remotely related to xenharmonics and microtones!

== Useful links ==

Xenharmonic Alliance Facebook Group

Microtonal Music and Tuning Theory Facebook Group

Xenharmonic Wiki

Cents<-->Ratios conversion

Sevish Scale Workshop

List of microtonal-capable plugins

Microtonal/Xenharmonic IRC Chat

Xenharmonic Alliance Discord Server

Graham's Temperament Finder

== Microtonal Books ==

Just Intonation Primer - David B. Doty

The Arithmetic Of Listening - Kyle Gann

The Contemporary Guitar - John Schneider

Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, and Scale - William Sethares

Divisions of The Tetrachord - John Chalmers (Out of Print)

Harmonic Experience - W.A. Mathieu

Genesis of A Music - Harry Partch

Music Primer - Lou Harrison

Microtonality and the Tuning Systems Of Erv Wilson - Terumi Narushima

Musical Mathematics - Cris Forster

A Theory Of Evolving Tonality - Joseph Yasser

== URL’s to various websites, online books, etc ==

Spectralism:

http://cmp.music.illinois.edu/courses/tipei/M408E/Notes/spectral.pdf

Graham Breed’s Temperament Finding App:

The Xenharmonic Wiki;

https://en.xen.wiki/w/Main_Page

Interval Calculator:

https://untwelve.org/interval_calc

MOS Identifier:

http://ia800908.us.archive.org/31/items/mosedo.html/mosedo.html?p=12&g=5

Kite Giedratis’ book on Microtonality/Xenharmonics:

http://www.tallkite.com/misc_files/alt-tuner_manual_and_primer.pdf

List of Musical Modes for every division of the Octave:

http://www.huygens-fokker.org/docs/modename.html

David Keenan’s page on Tuning and Mathematics:

http://dkeenan.com/Music/index.htm

Paul Erlich’s Middle Path Paper:

https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/paperspdf/Erlich-MiddlePath.pdf

Joe Monzo’s Tonalsoft Encyclopedia:

http://www.tonalsoft.com/enc/encyclopedia-index.aspx

Kyle Gann’s Tuning Page:

https://www.kylegann.com/microtonality.html

The Wilson Archives:

http://www.anaphoria.com/wilson.html

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