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Maqam Melodies: Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and other Microtonal Writings

Maqam Melodies: Pitches, Patterns, and Developments of Music in the Middle East and other Microtonal Writings

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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter ThoegersenPublish date:2024-08-07Pages:140
Language:EnglishPublisher:Jenny Stanford PublishingISBN-13:9789815129052ISBN-10:9815129058UPC:9789815129052Book Category:Music, ScienceBook Subcategory:Reference, Instruction & Study, Life SciencesBook Topic:CompositionSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCJ7S3H5B4

This book discusses microtonal tunings in the Arabic maqam, prevalent in the Middle East and Central Asia, which employs microtonal intervals from Pythagorean tuning by perfect fifths.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Jenny Stanford PublishingISBN-13:9789815129052ISBN-10:9815129058UPC:9789815129052Book Category:Music, ScienceBook Subcategory:Reference, Instruction & Study, Life SciencesBook Topic:CompositionSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.38 inchesWeight:0.8113Product ID:SCJ7S3H5B4

Peter Alexander Thoegersen was born in Los Angeles, USA, in 1967. He earned his doctorate in music composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2012. He wrote his thesis on polytempic polymicrotonality, previously untouched as a stylistic genre, with only a single precursor in the literature, Charles Ives's Universe Symphony (1915). Polytempic polymicrotonality offers expansive potential for the re-emergence of pitch and rhythm in contrast to extended technique noise gestures prevalent today. Dr. Thoegersen, a drummer, extrapolates rhythms and explores polytempo and four-way independence, wherein each independent "limb" becomes its own part, or voice, with its own tempo, and ultimately, its own microtonal system--approaching a radical new polyphony not yet practiced in musical literature. He has had his works premiered in Europe, Australia, and the United States. His eponymous CD Three Pieces in Polytempic Polymicrotonality (2019, New World Records) has had nine reviews and made to three top ten lists for 2019's best CDs. His song cycle Facebook: What's On Your Mind? was released on Flea Records in April 2021. Dr Thoegersen's most recent album, Alien Music (2022 Magic&Unique Records), is available for streaming on Spotify and Apple and is also available at Amazon.


Publisher: Jenny Stanford Publishing

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