Introduction to Quarter-tone Music

With Quarter-tones, imagine a fret between every fret on a Guitar. There have been several instruments which have been altered to accomplish the additional pitches, including: Piano, Organ, Flute, Clarinet, Trumpet, and a variety of other instruments as well. The Violin Family and other fretless Stringed Instruments and Slide Trombones can play Quarter or other Microtones with ease.

Here is an example of some Quarter-tone Music I just composed, with a brief spoken introduction before the music begins.

Diesel Bodine: Composer

Instrumentation: Piano, Marimba, Cello, Flute, Clarinet, Snare Drum, Bass Drum and Bowed Cymbal

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Education

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• music
• quarter-tone
• quartertone
• microtone
• microtonal
• composition
• modern
• dissonance
• Alois
• Haba
• piano
• marimba
• cello
• Charles
• Ives
• Diesel
• Bodine
• Scott
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[L0VECHILDD]

great tune!

[DieselBodine]

@L0VECHILDD ~ Thank-you! I have more Quarter-tone pieces on YT, too. This was meant as an introductory video for those not familiar with Quarter-tone music. 8-)

[sweetlikeADAM]

This scared the shit out of my cat!

[MoarOfTehRawkege]

This is pretty unsettling...........

[Taikina]

i know my brain is conditioned to only recognizing patterns within the 12 tone scale, but can you actually make microtonal music that invokes a sense of beauty or sadness or anything else that doesn't associate with just awkward and freaky(don't get me wrong people i love awkward and freaky too) or do i just need to listen to it more to tune into it and get it? dunno maybe this track actually sad and beautiful and i just hear the notes between the 12 tone scale and assume its weird? :D

[Licardo7]

sounded like something from tom and jerry

[kuxlejal]

Interesting! In fact, I like it. I wonder if there is any proposal about how to write down quater-tone music on a music score. In my homeland there's a piano tuned in quarters, but I never played something "decent" on it. By the way, I don't lke Julian Carrillo's compositions that are also composed in quarters, eighths and sixteenths of tone. But this is not bad. Congratulations.

[Thuggishsplicer1]

Very nice. I love Wyschnegradsy's work. Quarter-tone, in my view, is wonderful since it allows for doubling of the possible emotive stimuli. To deny listening to such a valueable forme is to deny one's self the high calibre of music that is.... quarter-tone.

[valeriedslack]

This is pretty cool, even if somewhat unsettling.

[charcoaljohnson]

I dig it.

[jipidibipity]

APEXvj

[hotamali]

@fuzzydizzle i fucking lol'd

[Xiphion]

What kind of vibes are you guys getting from this song? I feel confusion, uncertainty, lost, and even somewhat haunting vibes. Its a very nice piece!!

[Ignore14]

you know to be able to use these notes and make it sound anything like a song is impressive. sounds super trippy.