On Mar 4, 2:59 pm, "Steve Latham" <llat...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I've heard "extended tonality".
> Anyone ever encountered Hypertonality, or Hypotonality (as terms, not as
> hyperactive key changes in a piece :-).
> Steve
Hi Steve,
Hyper, from Greek, means more than the normal, excessive. I did a
Google search -- in music, Hypertonality appears to be used to label
any system or procedure having smaller intervals than the usual 12
semi-tones, so there are more than 13 chromatic tones per octave. It
was used by Penderecki, employing quarter-tones instead of semi-tones
(thereby producing 26 chromatic tones per octave) in Threnody for the
Victims of Hiro****ma. I recall reading about pianos being tuned in
such a way -- one time making it so the span of what is normally 7
octaves in C was only one octave. I'm off to the library site to see
if I can get the Penderecki piece. So, what brought this up? -- are
you composing something completely different?
Neil Miller, author of THE PIANO LESSONS BOOK
Enter in Amazon.com search: Neil Miller Piano Lessons Book
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