>> Anyone ever encountered Hypertonality, or Hypotonality (as terms,
>> not as hyperactive key changes in a piece :-).
> Hypertonality means having quarter tone intervals, so there are 34
> tones per octave, tuned in just intonation. This scale is derived from
> generating a harmonic series on each successive pitch in a single
> harmonic series taken from a chosen fundamental.
That doesn't make any discernible sense. Quartertones are incompatible
with both 34 tones to the octave and with just intonation.
I suspect you've been taking Wikipedia seriously. Mistake.
> Used by Penderecki in his 1960 masterwork "Threnody for the Victims
> of Hiro****ma" -- about as difficult a piece of music as one could
> ever encounter: written for 52 string players.
I've got the score around somewhere and might go look for it
tomorrow if I can be arsed. It uses some exotic scoring but
it isn't particularly difficult at all and has had quite a few
performances by amateur string orchestras. (The huge birdsong
canon in Messiaen's "Chronochromie" is a lot harder).
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