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Microtonal music uses intervals smaller than the standard half-steps found on a piano, dividing octaves into more than twelve notes to explore unusual scales and tunings. This approach creates otherworldly, sometimes dissonant sounds that can range from subtly exotic to dramatically alien, challenging Western ears accustomed to conventional pitch relationships. Found across experimental classical, avant-garde metal, and electronic music, it represents both ancient non-Western traditions and modern sonic exploration.
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1964 | Charles Ives | Quarter-Tone Pieces |
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1966 | Alois Hába | Organ Works |
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1968 | Emil Richards And The Microtonal Blues Band | Journey to Bliss |
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1976 | Alvin Lucier | Bird And Person Dyning |
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| 86 |
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1980 | Alois Hába | Chamber Music |
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| 97 | 1986 | Wendy Carlos | Beauty in the Beast |
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1987 | Various Artists | Crack My Pitch Up |
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| 17 |
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1988 | Richard Sanderson | Steady States |
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| 45 |
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1990 | Giacinto Scelsi | Music for High Winds |
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| 47 |
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1993 | Alois Hába | Centenary |
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| 22 |
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1994 | Easley Blackwood | Microtonal Compositions by Easley Blackwood |
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| 62 |
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1994 | Ivor Darreg | Detwelvulate! |
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| 67 |
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1995 | Jon Catler | Jon Catler |
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| 15 |
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1996 | Löis Lancaster | Malva |
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| 98 |
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1998 | Harry Partch | Delusion of the Fury |
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| 55 |
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1999 | Giacinto Scelsi | Œuvre intégrale pour chœur et orchestre symphonique |
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| 61 |
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1999-09-06 | Joe Maneri, Barre Phillips, Mat Maneri | Tales Of Rohnlief |
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| 77 | 2000 | Dumb Type | Memorandum |
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| 2 | 2002 | Tyrone Miller | Batman&Tyrone |
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2002 | Folly | Oubliette |
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| 20 |
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2002-12 | Bhob Rainey | 6 Standing Desert |
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| 34 |
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2004 | Ashtray Navigations | Who's Been Rocking My Dream-Boat? |
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| 78 |
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2004-09-01 | Nim | Editorial ep |
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2005-07-31 | Coeval | [mn005] distante |
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| 14 | 2005-10-13 | Tony | Itinerance |
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2006 | Cousin Silas | Memories Of A Journey |
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| 36 |
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2006 | Alois Hába | String Quartets Vol.2 (Stamic Quartet) |
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| 76 |
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2006-02-01 | Letna | Morning Sun - EKO001 |
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| 39 |
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2006-02-20 | D'incise | Variations sur Dublin |
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| 84 |
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2007 | Giacinto Scelsi | The Works for Double Bass |
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| 60 |
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2007-05-29 | Tim Doyle | Micro-Brew (microtonal music from Tim Doyle) |
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| 29 |
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2007-12 | Luigi Archetti | Fragments on Speed, Slowless and Tedium |
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| 27 |
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2008 | auger shell | The Narrows |
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| 81 |
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2008-02-25 | Ryoji Ikeda | See You At Regis Debray |
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| 35 | 2008-02 | Giorgos Stefanou | Internal Sonic Pathway |
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| 83 |
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2008-02 | Giacinto Scelsi | The Orchestral Works 2 |
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| 73 |
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2009-05-07 | Jgrzinich | time's arrow landing |
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| 41 |
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2009-05-25 | Tickles | Freirausch [IPOLY003] |
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| 59 |
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2009-10-27 | Marc Broude | Rites of Zen |
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| 40 |
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2010-01-01 | Aboombong | Agnosis |
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| 90 |
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2010-01-04 | Sevish | Golden Hour |
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2010-04-05 | MiaMia | Nani Nani |
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| 88 | 2010-09-08 | knowsur | NANA WODORI |
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2010-10-14 | Caustic Reverie | Splinter |
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2010-11-13 | Tsone | [at035] a sea beyond reckoning |
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| 92 | 2010-11-15 | Sevish | Human Astronomy |
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| 64 |
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2010-12-15 | Tony Dubshot | Dub Experryments |
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2011 | Katerina Stamatelos | Album No.1 |
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| 53 | 2011-02-05 | Carlo Serafini | Gammatar |
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2011-03-15 | Marco Lucchi | Mater Natura |
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| 33 |
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2011-05-31 | Vincent Royer | Giacinto Scelsi Edition 9: The Works for Viola |
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| 58 |
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2011-07-01 | Derek Piotr | AGORA |
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| 42 |
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2011-09-18 | Jurica Jelic | Electroacoustic layers |
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| 56 |
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2011-12-05 | Derek Piotr | AGORA Regathered |
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| 46 |
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2011-12-29 | Big City Orchestra | Nereids |
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| 82 |
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2012 | David Fiuczynski | Flam! Blam! Pan-Asian MicroJam! |
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| 50 |
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2012-06-02 | Sean Archibald | Sean but not Heard |
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| 94 |
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2012-07-28 | Brendan Byrnes | Micropangaea |
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| 89 |
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2013 | Last Sacrament | Enantiodromia |
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| 6 | 2013-04-08 | Vladimír Hirsch | Epidemic Mind |
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| 51 |
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2013-04-17 | Nils Quak | Und unsere Häuser sind Särge |
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| 49 |
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2013-07-21 | Indifferent Magma | Intrusion |
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| 70 |
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2013-08-19 | Aurastore | Untapped Horizons |
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2013-11-12 | Anarchestra | Oreph |
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2014-02-12 | Cinchel | Reign Water |
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| 48 |
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2014-08-28 | Anarchestra | Bathtub Music |
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2014-08-29 | Anarchestra | 4/04+ |
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2014-10-01 | Anarchestra | Batur |
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2015-05-10 | Sevish | Rhythm and Xen |
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2016-01-31 | EUS | Reviraje |
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2017-07-01 | Haarvöl | Bombinate |
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2017-10-04 | Marco Lucchi | Kosmische |
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2017-12-06 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Flying Microtonal Banana |
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2018-09-14 | Gallo'84 | Shimano |
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2018-09-28 | Jock Tears | bad boys |
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| 85 |
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2018-10-03 | Pulse Emitter | Xenharmonic Passages |
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| 66 |
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2020-01-10 | Fani Konstantinidou | Winter Trilogy / The Big Fall |
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| 74 |
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2020-09-11 | Orphax | En de stilstaande tijd |
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| 79 |
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2020-11-06 | Richard Chartier | Continue |
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2020-11-20 | King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | L.W. |
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2021-03-15 | Scott Lawlor | The Absence of Light Contains the Shadow of Loss |
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2021-03-26 | Micah Pick | Frameworks |
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| 96 | 2021-05-07 | Jute Gyte | Mitrealität |
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2021-08-03 | j.-p. caron | ST |
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2022 | Larry Goldings | Earthshine |
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| 8 | diecidicembre | diecidicembre |
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| 9 | Keith Rudolph | Transylvanian Chilean |
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| 38 | Deister Orchestra | Waltz in 10edo |
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| 87 | Basil's Kite | Shooting Tsars |
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| 1 | Keith Rudolph | King Arthur Hop |
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| 7 | Keith Rudolph | HellaVeez |
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| 28 | Valery Levacher | Demo |
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| 30 | skiks | compulse |
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| 32 | STAFFCIRC | STAFFcirc vol. 7 - Terra Octava |
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| 43 | Cuchufleta | 2011 |
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| 52 | Zhea Erose | Eurybia |
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| 57 | City of the Asleep | Transcendissonance |
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| 65 | Trauma Triad | A North Facing Window |
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| 75 | Hear Between The Lines | Radical Tenderness |
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| 80 | Tomoko Sauvage and Gilles Aubry | Apam Napat |
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