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Quarter-Tone System

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Quarter-Tone System 

a tonal system based on the division of the octave into 24 equal intervals of a quarter tone instead of the usual 12 halftones. Theoretical work on the quarter-tone system began in 1910, and several composers have used the system in their works. The most prominent exponent of the quarter-tone system was the Czech composer A. Hába. In the USSR, A. M. Avraamov and G. M. Rimskii-Korsakov experimented with the quarter-tone system.

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Hába, A. “Garmonicheskaia osnova chetvertitonnoi sistemy.” K novym beregam, 1923, no. 3.
Shtein, R. “Chetvertitonnaia muzyka.” Ibid.
Rimskii-Korsakov, G. M. “Obosnovanie chetvertitonovoi muzykal’noi sistemy.” In the collection De musica, fasc. 1. Leningrad, 1925.
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] in your very interesting lectures and creative discussions, have left deep traces in me, even though I haven't in fact used the quarter-tone system in my own work as a composer.
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