quarter tone

More subtle changes of a quarter tone or less can be made with some models.

In this scale the quarter tone is the smallest step.

Its size is 48.8 cents, making it practically a quarter tone.

The term quarter tone can refer to a number of different intervals, all very close in size.

The piece makes extensive use of quarter tones and golden mean sections.

Since then her compositions have been notated in quarter tones.

Her ability to remain a quarter tone above or below the written note was truly inspired.

But the music was ornamented with sharp, insistent quarter tones.

The name derives from the interval being the 7-limit approximation of a quarter tone.

In some treatments of theory, the quarter tone scale or all twenty four tones should exist.

The quarter tone scale may be primarily considered a theoretical construct in Arabic music.

Special fingerings may be used to play quarter tones and other microtonal intervals.

The piano had three manuals, and strings tuned a quarter tone apart.

Microtones and especially Quarter tones have been used in music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Each partial is approximated to the nearest quarter tone.

This is to ease playing Arabic maqams, especially those containing quarter tones.

Quarter Tones also provides readers with etudes and exercises.

On the next chorus Riker picked up his tempo and even attempted a few quarter tones.

Hopkins, like Joyce, was a musician (he wrote a song in the 1860's that employs quarter tones).

Quarter tones and intervals close to them also occur in a number of other equally tempered tuning systems.

Conventional musical instruments that can play quarter tones include

Other instruments can be used to play quarter tones when using audio signal processing effects such as pitch shifting.

These scales split perfect intervals using quarter tones.

However, this scale is commonly represented with the first and last half step each being represented as a quarter tone.

Many of the notes appear to be off (either sharp or flat) by about a quarter tone (half a semitone).