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Microtones, the frequency spaces between notes — Don Ellis

Updated February 28, 2024 | Published December 19, 2022 by M

From wikipedia: Holton built Ellis a custom trumpet which he received in September 1965.[15] Its additional (fourth) valve enabled it to produce quarter tones. The inspiration for this may have been due to his studies of Indian music, which includes bent pitches that some ethnomusicologists refer to as “microtones”. However, it was probably more the result of Ellis’s … Read more

Music Theory and White Supremacy – “Music Theory and The White Racial Frame” Dr. Ewell

Updated February 28, 2024 | Published May 8, 2022 by M

Original article — https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html “Music theory can be seen as a racial ideology in which the views and ideas of white persons are held to be more significant than the views and ideas of nonwhites.” Excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA Dr. Philip Ewell, a music theorist and scholar, has gained attention for his discussions on race and … Read more

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All is inseparably connected via vibration. Per scripture, sound was the beginning: If “God is two octaves above man,” but ‘silence is golden,’ doesn’t that leave us somewhere between precious and divine? We should live up to that.