A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale. Prototypical tone clusters are based on the chromatic scale and...

a cluster of propositions that in combination pick out a unique referent Tone cluster, a musical chord comprising at least three consecutive tones in...

of Banba. The Tides of Manaunaun is the best known of Cowell's many tone cluster pieces. The Building of Banba, for which The Tides of Manaunaun was composed...

Mexico, Brazil and a few others) do tone languages occur as individual members or small clusters within a non-tone dominated area. In some locations, like...

note. Chords with more than three notes include added tone chords, extended chords and tone clusters, which are used in contemporary classical music, jazz...

theatrical prelude, is the best-known and most widely-performed of Cowell's tone cluster pieces for piano. Cowell was born on March 11, 1897, in rural Menlo Park...

Ornstein was the first important composer to make extensive use of the tone cluster. As a pianist, he was considered a world-class talent. By the mid-1920s...

Orchestra) in 1928. The piece contains many innovative uses of dissonance, cluster chords and extended uses of form. Cowell completed his Piano Concerto in...

from seconds such as counterpoint. Secundal chords are often called tone clusters more generally, especially when non-diatonic. "[Any] three or more pitches...

the emancipation of society and humanity. Michael Broyles calls Ives' tone-cluster-rich song "Majority" as "an incantation, a mystical statement of belief...

various game theme songs produced over the past years. A second album, Tone Cluster, was released the following year in September. Both albums were released...

genre of music that emphasizes the use of sustained sounds, notes, or tone clusters called drones. It is typically characterized by lengthy compositions...

Henry Cowell's tone clusters. Slonimsky later came to regard pandiatonicism as a diatonic counterpart of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique, whereby...

departing tone was analysed to feature a post-coda sibilant, "s". Clusters of -ps, -ts, -ks, were then formed at the end of syllables. These clusters eventually...

modernist tone clusters and spread to orchestral writing by the mid 1950s and 1960s. "Unlike most tonal and non-tonal linear dissonances, tone clusters are...

one of the first pieces in the history of music to utilize violent tone clusters for the keyboard. It requires the performer to use various limbs to...

leading-tone of the scale, which has a strong tendency to pull towards the tonic of the key (e.g., in C, the third of G7, B, is the leading tone of the...

'space music', this double album ebbs and flows effortlessly from one tone cluster to another. Almost classical in construction, the music is structured...

musical techniques including polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatory elements, and quarter tones. His experimentation foreshadowed many musical innovations...

indications, notated in seconds, as well as specific note clusters and the use of quarter tones, clustered pitches and sound mass which accumulates in a reservoir...

augmented unisons are frequently written in modern works involving tone clusters, such as Iannis Xenakis' Evryali for piano solo. The semitone appeared...

Quartal chord Root (chord) Seventh chord Synthetic chord Thirteenth chord Tone cluster Triad (music) Upper structure Pearse, John (1977). The Guitarist's Picture...

by unusual combinations of instruments that created highly specific tone clusters and textures and her large dynamic ranges. A highly private person,...

the tone cluster by Henry Cowell. Some of the early piano pieces by Leo Ornstein and George Antheil also tend towards quite comparable tone clusters. With...

music. Its traditional playing technique in gagaku involves the use of tone clusters called aitake (合竹), which move gradually from one to the other, providing...

physical approach, resulting in complex improvisation often involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms. His technique has been compared to percussion...

14 vowel nuclei, and 6 tones that are integral to the interpretation of the language. Older interpretations of Vietnamese tones differentiated between...

between extended and added chords must be made, since the added tones and extended tones are enharmonic, but differ in function. Extended chords always...

transcription delimiters. Tone sandhi is a phonological change that occurs in tonal languages. It involves changes to the tones assigned to individual words...

first classical composition to be composed almost entirely of brash tone clusters, predating the "forearm" music of Henry Cowell by a few years. In 1918...