Links

General

• Graham Breed's microtonal website
• Ivor Darreg's complete musical writings
• Frequently Asked Questions about tuning from the Tuning List members
• Joe Monzo's Encyclopedia of tuning at Tonalsoft
• John Starrett's microtonal music links (many but many broken)

Instruments

              Acoustic

• Accordion tuning
• Stephen Altoft and Donald Bousted: Microtonal Trumpet
• Australian harmonic bells
• Marco Blaauw: Janus-trumpet
• Bosanquet's Enharmonic Harmonium
• Chamadron
• Diachromatic Carillon of Nieuwpoort
• David Løberg Code: Groven Piano Project
• Tolgahan Cogulu: Adjustable microtonal guitar
• Nikos Dimitriadis: Oud
• Dean Drummond: Zoomoozophone primer
• Terry Ewell: The bassoon-family fingering companion
• Experimental Musical Instruments
• Cris Forster: Musical Instruments
• Stephen Fox: Bohlen-Pierce clarinet
• Kraig Grady: Musical instruments and tunings
• Bob Grawi: Gravikord
• Eivind Groven's Organ House
• Bill Hibbert: The sound and tuning of bells
• Historical temperament tunings on the modern concert piano
• Buzz Kimball: Instruments
• The Kingma System Flute
• Johannes Kotschy: Escalophon
• Ewan Macpherson: Bagpipe index
• Pat Missin: Alternate tunings for the harmonica
• Peter Samuel Munck: 19-tone harmonium
• Vidyadhar Oke: 22 Shruti Harmonium and Metallophone
• Het Orgel: Online magazine on European organ art
• Orgues à nos logis
• Patrick Ozzard-Low: 21st Century Orchestral Instruments. Acoustic instruments for alternative tuning systems
• Clark Panaccione: Quarter-tone harmonium
• David Parfitt: The Oud
• Play the virtual Harry Partch instruments
• Jean-Pierre Poulin: Guitares microtonales
• Qin Tunings, with Special Reference to Shen Qi Mi Pu
• Godfried-Willem Raes: Quartertone Automated Pipe Organ
• Timothy Reichard: Quartertone fingering chart for saxophone
• Tony Salinas: The Conic Bellophone
• Sauter: 1/16-tone piano
• Sonic Arts instrument gallery
• Hans-André Stamm: The enharmonic pipe organ
• John Starrett: Convert your old guitar to a microtonal instrument
• Siemen Terpstra: An integrated colour-code for microtonal guitar fret-boards
• Marco Tiella: reconstruction of the Archicembalo
• Traverso tuning and temperaments

              Electr(on)ic

• Ganesh Anandan: Shruti Stik and Shruti metallophone
• ANS synthesizer
• Jacques Dudon: Photosonic disk
• Harold Fortuin: The Clavette keyboard
• History of electronic and computer music including automatic instruments and composition machines
• Johannes Kotschy: New Keyboard
• Peter Lertes: The Hellertion and Heliophon
• Jörg Mager: The Electrophon, Sphäraphon, Partiturophon and the Kaleidophon
• Maurice Martenot: The Ondes-Martenot
• Microtonal synthesis: list of synthesizers, samplers, pianos, portable keyboards, sound cards and software synthesizers with user programmable scales or tunings.
• Microtonal keyboards from Starr Labs: MicroZone and ZBoard
• MIDI Manufacturers Association: MIDI Tuning Specification 1.0
• Monolith MIDI Keyboard
• Lev Sergeivitch Termen: The Theremin
• The Continuum Fingerboard
• Friedrich Trautwein: The Trautonium, Mixtur-Trautonium, Radio Trautonium and Concert-Trautonium; The Monochord; Mixtur-Trautonium
• Das digitale Trautonium and The Trautonium Project
• Erv Wilson: 31-tone instrument patent
• Yamaha: 19-tone keyboard patent

Microtonal and Non-ET Music

• 80/81 the Microtonal Radio
• Christopher Bailey: Piece in 19-tET and JI
• Graham Breed: Music
• Buyo-Buyo: SaRiGaMa music
• Kyle Gann: Music
• Stefan Hagel: Ancient Greek Music
• Jeff Harrington: Music
• Andrew Heathwaite: MP3 files
• Ralph Jarzombek: Microtonal music
• Iglashion Jones: Microtonal music
• Magnus Jonsson: Microtonal music
• Buzz Kimball: Sound files
• Pierre Lewis' tuning and temperament demos
• Making Microtonal Music
• Rick McGowan: Music
• Microtonalismo: La Música de los microtonos
• Herman Miller: The Music Page
• Herman Miller: The Warped Canon Page and Pavane for a Warped Princess
• Microtonal MIDI files
• Joe Monzo: List of works with MIDI files
• Mats Öljare: MIDI compositions
• Joseph Pehrson: MP3 files
• Samuel Pellman: microtonal music
• Boudewijn Rempt: Andal music
• Prent Rodgers: Microtonal music
• Dante Rosati's music
• Robert Ross: 19-tone madrigals in Flash
• John Sankey: Harpsichord MIDI recordings
• Dave Seidel: Mysterybear productions
• Carlo Serafini: Detwelvulation
• William Sethares: Xentonality
• Mohajeri Shahin: Microtonal Music
• Alessandro Simonetto: Kunst der Fuge
• Jon Lyle Smith: Classical JI and 19-tone MP3's
• Gene Ward Smith: Microtonal music
• Gene Ward Smith: Mad Science Tuning
• split notes: Microtonal Netlabel
• Dan Stearns: Microtonal Music
• Mick Sussman: Microtonal Computer Music
• Tonalsoft: Free Music Downloads
• Robert Walker: Improvisations and Tunes
• Danny Wier: Microtonal Music
• ZIA: Microtonal Music

Institutions

• Actuele Muziek
• American Festival of Microtonal Music
• Association Ivan Wyschnegradsky
• Boston Microtonal Society
• Centre for New Musical Instruments (CNMI) at London Guildhall University
• Chrysalis Foundation
• Contemporary Music Through Non-Western Techniques
• The Diapason Press
• International society for performing arts research Arnold Bake
• Frog Peak Music
• Gaudeamus Foundation
• Internationale Gesellschaft für Ekmelische Musik
• The Just Intonation Network
• The Karnatic Lab
• Lambdoma Home Page
• The Logos Foundation
• LucyScaleDevelopments
• MELA Foundation
• Microfest
• Microtonal Projects
• Music Notation Modernization Association
• Musicology-Online: Doctoral Dissertations
• NewMusicBox: Web magazine from American Music Center
• The Augusto Novaro Society
• P-ART Journal
• Pitch for the International Microtonalist
• Richter Herf-Institut für musikalische Grundlagenforschung
• Society for Music Theory
• Sonic Arts Institute
• Spolecnost pro mikrointervalovou hudbu (SMIM)
• Stichting BAM
• un.twelve
• World Harmony Project
• Xenharmonikôn, an informal journal devoted to all aspects of microtonal and xenharmonic music

Mailing lists

• Tuning List, the largest e-mail forum about music and tuning
• Tuning List Archive and Mills Tuning List Archive
• Make Micro Music, like the Tuning List but more about actually making music
• Tuning-Math, like the Tuning List but for folks who want to get mathematical
• Tuning-Math List Archive
• List of microtonal groups at Yahoo
• La liste mamuphi@listes.ircam.fr, Séminaire math musique philosophie

Theory

              General

• John Allen: notation for microtonal scales
• Armodue
• Robert Asmussen: Tuning by Ratios
• Bach Cantatas: Temperament / Key Character
• Dave Benson: Mathematics and Music
• Terry Blackburn: Alternate Temperaments: Theory and Philosophy (The beginner's field guide to alternate temperaments)
• Heinz Bohlen: The Bohlen-Pierce site
• Graham Breed: Catalogue of linear temperaments
• Norman Carey and David Clampitt: Self-Similar Pitch Structures, Their Duals, and Rhythmic Analogs
• Hayden Chisholm: microtonal recordings
• Ross Duffin: Why I hate Vallotti (or is it Young?)
• Edward Dunne: Pianos and Continued Fractions
• Paul Erlich: A gentle introduction to Fokker periodicity blocks
• Paul Erlich: Tuning, Tonality and Twenty-Two-Tone Temperament
• Paul Erlich: microtonal music theory
• Cris Forster: Musical Mathematics
• Laurent Gautier: Gammes et théories musicales
• Jürgen Grönewald: Mikrotonale Differenzen musikalischer Temperaturen
• Paul Hahn: Music Theory
• Jeff Harrington: Making Microtonal Music with Software
• Paul Hirsh: Atlas of Tonespace
• David Keenan and George Secor: Sagittal notation
• Reinhard Kopiez: Intonation experiment
• Vladimir Ladma: Music theory
• Henzo Lafuente: Microtonalismo y Afinaciónes alternativas
• Pierre Lewis: Understanding Temperaments
• Stephen Malinowski: Music pages
• Werner Mohrlok: Hermode program controlled tuning
• Jean-Pierre Poulin: La petite encyclopédie des échelles et des modes
• Kees van Prooijen: Music
• William Sethares: Research
• Gene Ward Smith: Xenharmony
• Norman Sohl: An Atlas of Consonance
• Solomon's Music Theory and Composition Resources
• Hans Straub: MaMuTh Page
• Rick Tagawa: 72 Tone Equal Temperament
• Ernst Terhardt: Psychophysics research papers
• Chris Tyler: Musical Tuning and Temperament
• Claudio di Veroli: Unequal Temperaments
• The Erv Wilson Archive and Wilson Archive - Related Papers

              Historical

• Bill Alves: The Just Intonation System of Nicola Vicentino
• Patrice Bailhache: La Musique traduite en Mathématiques: Leonhard Euler
  Joe Monzo's English translation
• Bibliographie zur Musiktheorie des Mittelalters
• Bradley Lehman: Johann Sebastian Bach's tuning
• Margo Schulter: Articles on early music harmony and tuning
• Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum
• Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
• Traités français sur la musique

              Non-Western

• Bill Alves: Graphic Representation of Some Gamelan Tunings
• Mohan Ayyar: Carnatic Corner
• Haresh Bakshi: Sound of India
• David Courtney: Tuning the tabla
• Alain Daniélou
• Gamelan mailing list archive
• Indonesian music
• Maqam World
• Persian classical music
• Turkish makams and music theory
• Ueli Raz: Einführungen in die Sitar
• John Spirakis: Byzantine Music
• Wolfgang Martin Stroh: "Mira" und die Stimmung des Bremer Gamelan

Composers

• Mary Ackerley
• Susan Alexjander
• Bill Alves
• Didier Aschour
• Henk Badings
• Christopher Bailey
• Claude Ballif
• Alain Bancquart
• Klarenz Barlow
• Hans Barnard
• Sergio Barroso
• David Beardsley
• John Beckwith
• Anton de Beer
• John Bischoff
• Easley Blackwood
• Richard Boulanger
• Donald Bousted
• Warren Burt
• David Canright
• Wendy Carlos
• Julián Carrillo
• Jon Catler
• Hayden Chisholm
• Gloria Coates
• Mildred Couper
• Pascale Criton
• Andrew Culver
• Ivor Darreg
• Chris Dench
• Jan van Dijk
• David Doty
• Dean Drummond
• Jacques Dudon
• John Eaton
• Jason Eckardt
• Ivo van Emmerik
• Julio Estrada
• José Evangelista
• David Finnamore
• John Fonville
• Daniel Forró
• Cris Forster
• Harold Fortuin
• John Foulds
• Mamoru Fujieda
• Kyle Gann
• Sander Germanus
• Annie Gosfield
• Kraig Grady
• Erik Griswold
• Eivind Groven
• John Gzowski
• Georg Friedrich Haas
• Alois Hába
• Georg Hajdu
• Garth Hangartner
• Lou Harrison
• Jonathan Harvey
• Edu Haubensack
• Neil Haverstick
• Rozalie Hirs
• Sten Höstfält
• Klaus Huber
• Peter Lucas Hulen
• Ertugrul Inanç
• Charles Ives
• Aaron Johnson
• Ben Johnston
• Iglashion Jones
• Christiaan de Jong
• Jeronimas Kacinskas
• Mykhaylo Khramov
• Buzz Kimball
• Johannes Kotschy
• Hans Kox
• Stanislav Kozadayev
• Anne La Berge
• Dimitris Lambrianos
• Bernhard Lang
• Steven Lantner
• Elodie Lauten
• Claude Ledoux
• Ton de Leeuw
• Gijs Levelt
• Györgi Ligeti
• Alain Louvier
• Henry Lowengard
• Francisco Luque
• Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf
• Joel Mandelbaum
• Joseph Maneri
• Luc Marcel
• Jean-Etienne Marie
• Bruce Mather
• Ned McGowan
• Paul Méfano
• Guiseppi Mendoza
• Joseph Monzo
• Frederick Moore
• Pauline Oliveros
• Gérard Pape
• Harry Partch and the Newband Harry Partch site
• Joseph Pehrson
• Krzysztof Penderecki
• Larry Polansky
• Rod Poole
• Horatio Radulescu
• Hans Reichel
• Rafael Reina
• Karel Reiner
• Johnny Reinhard
• Richard Rijnvos
• Terry Riley
• Pedro M. Rocha
• Prent Rodgers
• Dante Rosati
• Mathew Rosenblum
• Ned Rothenberg
• Marc Sabat
• Giacinto Scelsi
• Greg Schiemer
• Allan Schindler
• Jeff Scott
• Murat Ses
• Mohajeri Shahin
• Adam Silverman
• Ezra Sims
• Martin Smolka
• Manfred Stahnke
• Viktor Suslin
• Hans-André Stamm
• Volker Staub
• Ernstalbrecht Stiebler
• Tui St. George Tucker
• James Tenney
• Jeroen Paul Thesseling
• Jukka Tiensuu
• Frances-Marie Uitti
• Klaas de Vries
• Leo de Vries
• Elaine Walker
• Julia Werntz
• John Winiarz
• Daniel Wolf
• James Wood
• Ivan Wyschnegradsky
• Iannis Xenakis
• Franck Yeznikian
• La Monte Young
• Joji Yuasa
• Jos Zwaanenburg

Software

              Free- or shareware

• Adaptun by William Sethares
• athenaCL by Christopher Ariza
• Audio Compositor by Scott Mitchell
• Autobusk by Clarence Barlow
• Auto Tune by AnalogX
• Cecilia Graphic User Interface to Csound
• Chromatia Tuner by FMJ-Software
• ChucK by Ge Wang and Perry Cook
• Common Music by CCRMA
• CSFE, Eartrainer and Pitchtrack by Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
• Csound
• Custom Scale Editor by Aaron Andrew Hunt
• Diamond Marimba applet by Prent Rodgers
• EPS for JI by David Canright
• FluteCalc by Christopher Chapman
• Flutini by Scott R. Turner
• Fractal Tune Smithy by Robert Walker
• GeoMaestro by Stéphane Rollandin
• Harmonic Analyser, MidiTemper and PianoTuner by Fred Nachbaur
• Intune by Marek Dolleiser
• Intune by Michael Goldsby
• iPhone applet for piano with extra E# key
• JICalc by Carter Scholz
• JI Relay by John deLaubenfels
• JI Sequencer by Chuckk Hubbard
• Just Intonation Ear Trainer by Bill Alves
• Kora Jaliya by Harald Loquenz
• Lime Music Notation Software by CERL Sound Group
• Linear temperament finder applet by Graham Breed
• Linux music software page by Dave Phillips
• Linux music software quick toots
• Magnus' Plugins, JI synth
• Max Magic Microtuner and Vogue Quattro 1.0 microtonal synthesizer by Victor Cerullo
• Megamid MIDI file player
• MicroABC by Hudson Lacerda
• Microtonal score to MIDI applet by Christopher Bailey
• MIDI to CSound converter by Rüdiger Borrmann
• MIDI Relay and Midiconv by Graham Breed
• MidiPipe
• Musical Harmony and the "Seeing Harmony" Software (Norman Cook)
• Music software - Shareware Music Machine
  Music software - Shareware Music Machine: Tuners
• Mutabor by Bernhard Ganter et al.
• Open Tuning by Philippe Gruchet
• Pareto: patches for the analysis and the resynthesis of musical scales in ethnomusicology by Fabien Levy
• Pd by Miller Puckette
• Pitchtune oscilloscope-style tuner by Håkon André Hjortland
• Plaka physical modelling synthesizer by Utku Uzmen
• Quintet.net by Georg Hajdu
• Scala by Manuel Op de Coul from this website
• Scala and Fractal Tune Smithy combined installer
• Scala Microtuners for Kontakt and SynthEdit by Robert Strauss
• Scale Browser Database by Guiseppi Mendoza
• Scale by Albert Gräf
• Sfront by John Lazzaro
• Silence by Michael Gogins
• Strasheela by Torsten Anders
• Supercollider by James McCartney
• Tantrum by Stephen Malinowsky
• Tao physical model synthesiser by Mark Pearson
• Tartini by Philip McLeod
• Temperament spreadsheet by Bradley Lehman
• Timidity MIDI to WAVE converter/player by Masanao Izumo and others. See also this page.
• Timidity++ Experimental version and latest binary
• TTMusik by Joachim Mohr
• Tune!it by Detlef Volkmer
• TuneMaster by F.R. Feenstra
• Tuner 6.2 by Jacob Breetvelt
• Tuner applet by Pierre Lewis
• Tuner for flute making, Tuner for shakuhachi, Tuning Fork, Cent Tuner by Tatsuaki Kuroda
• Tuning and timbre applet by James Forrest
• Unerhörte Geometrie applet by Mona Brand and Thomas Noll
• Virtual 31-tone Fokker keyboard applet and 31-tone Bosanquet keyboard applet by Paul Hirsh
• Wavanal for bell tuning analysis by Bill Hibbert
• Windchime Designer by Greg Philips
• WinTemper tuner by Mark Wilkes
• Xentone microtonal ear trainer and notation trainer by Aaron Andrew Hunt
• Zarlino by Olivier Bettens and Jean-Pierre Vidal
• Zinf Audio Player
• ZynAddSubFX software synthesizer by Paul Nasca

              Commercial

• AnaMark softsynth (Mark Henning)
• Audite! (whc Musiksoftware)
• Cybertuner piano tuning program (Reyburn)
• Ekmelia (Heinz Malsy)
• Harmony Assistant/Melody Assistant (Myriad Software)
• HMSL: Hierarchical Music Specification Language (Frog Peak)
• Instrument-Tuner
• JMSL: Java Music Specification Language (Algomusic)
• Kyma (Symbolic Sound Corporation)
• L'il Miss' Scale Oven (commercial/demo), IntervalCalc (shareware) and Nuscale by Jeff Scott
• Max/MSP (Cycling '74)
• MetaSynth (U&I softwares)
• Microtonal software for the Ensoniq Mirage (Upward Concepts)
• Midicode Synthesizer (Peter Frazer)
• MIDI Micro Tone (John Dunn & Algorithmic Arts)
• November Font for Finale (Klemm)
• Orion Platinum (Synapse Audio Software)
• Pitch Palette (Justonic Tuning Inc)
• Pro-52, FM7 and Reaktor softsynths (Native Instruments)
• Scordatura (H-Pi Instruments)
• SwarShala (Swar Systems)
• Symbolic Composer (Tonality Systems)
• Tonescape (Tonalsoft)
• Tuning Meister
• VAZ Plus, Modular, 2001 (STL)
• World Music Menu (Free Play Production)
• Z3ta+ Waveshaping Synthesizer (rcgAudio)

Metalinks

• Xenharmonic Wiki, an open resource for ANYone curious about ANY aspect of microtonal music, xenharmonic music, alternative tuning practices, etc.
• Phil Burk's computer music links
• Spud DuBoise's links
• Microtonal Listening List
• Just Intonation Network's links

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