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> microtonal variations The vast majority of music probably doesn't need this

• nameless912 5y ago
  The vast majority of _Western_ music doesn't need it, but microtonal music is extremely important in a number of Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and even Eastern European systems.
  • exabrial 5y ago
    Ok... so? Use a different notation, duh. See my point about letting edge cases drive the bus off a cliff.
    • Jeff_Brown 5y ago
      Continuing to use the status quo notation would hardly constitute driving the bus off a cliff. And the cases of microtonality are not that edge. Beyond allowing interoprability among musicians from different cultures, western notation has been critical to most (and there's a lot of it) western microtonal music.
      • exabrial 5y ago
        Who the hell cares? Use a different notation for the .00000000001% of the time you ever have to interop with a non 12-tone equal temperament scale.