Tag: microtonal trumpet
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The 4 valve microtonal trumpet
I have described in the blog, Developing the Microtonal Trumpet and its Pedagogy how The Microtonal Trumpet project developed from an exploration of a three-valve instrument using ‘natural’ deviations of pitch from the 12-div equal tempered standard. The first 5 to 10 of the 24 Microtonal Studies for trumpet were written with the idea that – more or…
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24 Microtonal Studies for Trumpet
24 Microtonal Studies for trumpet were written as first material for the replaceable valve mechanism microtonal trumpets developed by Stephen Altoft (although the first five to ten studies can be played on a standard trumpet as is described in the blog Developing the Microtonal Trumpet and its Pedagogy). They are pedagogical studies in that they: demand…
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Developing the Microtonal Trumpet and its Pedagogy
The trumpet is microtonal by its very nature because different pitches, which are made by overblowing a length of brass tubing, produce a harmonic series and are therefore not equally tempered: In the example, pitches are shown as sounding in open position on a C trumpet. Open position refers to there being no valves depressed: the trumpet player…
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