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When I compose, I usually begin by sitting quietly and humming or singing out loud until I have a melody that I like. Because I was born and raised in the west,
by vunderba 2y ago
When I compose, I usually begin by sitting quietly and humming or singing out loud until I have a melody that I like. Because I was born and raised in the west, acoustically I'm naturally accustomed to a 12 tone equal temperament.
Atonal music is more difficult for me to grok, and I kind of imagine that for you to be fluent and compose in these sort of microtonal scales you would need to be introduced to it at a young age - in much the same way that it's significantly easier to learn a second language if you grow up in a bilingual environment.
- eternauta3k 2y agoI have no clue about this topic, but isn't Just Intonation what e.g. people sing when left to their own devices?
- handity 2y agoYes
- andybak 2y agoI'm no expert but your use of "atonal" and "microtonal" interchangeably here seems way off the mark. "Atonal" usually refers to music composed without a fixed sense of key - and was originally used to describe music written using standard western 12TET. It's a property of the music's relationship to key signatures - not it's tuning system.