Scores

A word about scores

When a piece of music is to be performed repeatedly the same way, or performed by people who weren't the originators of the piece, it helps to have a score. In the history of objectifying music, scores were the currency until they were displaced by recordings. There are many types of microtonal notation, such as Sagittal notation, color notation and ups and downs notation.

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Historically significant microtonal scores

Check your local gigantic university library. If they don't have it, they could probably be persuaded to get it.

• Charles Ives's Three Quarter Tone Pieces (1913-1924)
• Harry Partch
• Ben Johnston, esp. string quartets
• Alois Hába, esp. string quartets
• Easley Blackwood, esp. Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media, op. 28
• publishings of Diapason Press
• this list is so obviously incomplete that you should help finish it.

Links to Microtonal Scores, by Composer

Please contribute to this list of scores that are available (i.e. downloadable). This is meant as a resource for performers interested in microtonal music. Feel free to make wiki pages for "notable" compositions; the wiki supports file attachments up to 10 MB each.

Jacob Barton

• De-quinin' for two Bb clarinets (one tuned 33¢ flat)
• Moods for 3 keyboards
• Kluh for 11 performers on 21 tuned bottles
• Eighty-one ninth chords for 2 pianos, 17edo
• Land Urchin for string band in 11-limit just intonation

David Canright

• Fibonacci Suite (piano retuned to 7-limit JI, seven hands)

William Copper

• Romance for Violin and Orchestra
• Holy Day Overture

Ivor Darreg

• On the Enharmonic Tetrachord (from Suite, Op. 62), in 22tET. Originally printed in the Spring 1975 issue of Xenharmonikon in quarter-tone notation. Transcribed to Sagittal by Juhani Nuorvala.

Paul Erlich

• Tibia in 22tET (Listen). Sagittal score in F||\ or in G

Kyle Gann

• The Day Revisited for flute, clarinet, electric bass, 2 keyboards
• Charing Cross for keyboard and tape
• New Aunts for keyboard
• Triskaidekaphonia for keyboard
• Fugitive Objects for keyboard
• Custer and Sitting Bull, "electronic cantata"
• Love Scene for string quartet. Gann creates tuning guides for many of his pieces, list at the bottom of this page.

Robert Hasegawa

• Spiral for chamber ensemble
• Chaconne for James Tenney for chamber ensemble (JI/96edo
• Due Corde for 2 pianos, 19edo

Andrew Heathwaite

• Clouds, 72edo
• Prayer of Thanks, 7-limit just intonation

Paul Kotheimer

• Goes to Eleven (2009) for ensemble, 11-limit JI
• Three Short Poems (2008) for voices and drones, 5- and 7-limit JI
• Mercy (2008) for voice and drone (and udderbot), 13-limit JI

Mats Öljare

• Sunday Pipes, 22edo

Tui St. George Tucker

• three Quartertone Lullabies for wind trios
• Vigil I and Vigil II for organ
• Little pieces for quartertone piano
• Sarabande for quartertone harpsichord

Dante Rosati

• "Arbor Low" for 21-tone Just Intonation guitar

Thomas Edwin Scheurich III

• Three Lonely, Uninspired Ways to Play in 17tet (2006) for 2 pianos
• Attention! Attention! Attention! (2007) for 17-tone ensemble (soprano, udderbot, slide whistles, violin, viola, cello, pianos, laptop, percussion)
• Story Worth Telling (2008) chamber operetta in 17edo
• Xenharmonic Curiosities II (2009) for voices and viola

Ryan Stickney

• One for All

Hans Straub

• Sharks (2008) for 17-tone pianos

Daniel Wolf

• Etudes for solo microtonal instruments in equal tunings 8-23
• Figure and Ground for string trio

Chris Vaisvil

• Prelude for Centaur Tuned Piano
• Slumber of Thought (for 65cent equal temperament tuned piano)