Research on the work of other composers and theorists

© 1999 by Joe Monzo

MICROTONAL MUSIC THEORY

Dictionary of Tuning Terms
come back often - always new additions!

A Monzo lattice of Harry Partch's 43-tone scale

Music translated into Mathematics: Leonhard Euler,
my translation into English of Patrice Bailhache's paper.

a Chronological List of Works of Alois Hába

Microtonal Analysis of a Robert Johnson vocal

Tutorial on ancient Greek Tetrachord-theory

Beethoven tuning experiment: a 'justification' of the Scherzo from his Sonata # 9

Speculations on Marchetto of Padua's "Fifth-Tones"
revised and expanded (still in progress)

5-Limit Implications of ancient Indian tuning

An old version of Paul Erlich's essay on Harmonic Entropy, with added commentary by me.

Comma 32805/32768, by Jan Haluska, in my HTML version.
(still under development)

Charts of pitches on Poole's keyboard design

A stretched-'octave' scale of Charles Ives

A summary of W. S. B. Woolhouse's Essay on musical intervals

An examination of Fox-Strangways and Partch on JI modulation

An examination of A 12-tone multi-prime neo-Gothic JI tuning of Margo Schulter

A 13-tone 7...17-limit scale of Pat Pagano and David Beardsley

On Fabio Colonna's Sambuca Tuning

The Blackjack Scale

Mozart's Tuning: a 20-tone subset of 55-EDO

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MICROTONAL FRETBOARD DIAGRAMS

Equal-Tempered Guitar Fingerboards

John Dowland's Lute Fretting

Arab Lute Frettings

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OTHER MUSIC THEORY TOPICS

Metrical Analysis and Re-notation of Webern's Piano Variations

A Century of New Music in Vienna,
a chronology of Mahler, Schoenberg, Webern, and the birth of atonality

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Click here for my own original work in music

Click here for my work in non-musical areas
(still under construction)

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For many more diagrams and explanations of historical tunings, see my book. If you don't understand my theory or the terms I've used, start here or try some definitions.

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