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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

'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...

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

1919 Argentine Tango Pancho Vladigerov 1899 1978 Bulgarian Fats Waller 1904 1943 American Jazz Henry Cowell 1897 1965 American Avant-garde, tone cluster...

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

A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered...

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...

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...

from the tiny 18-bar no. 4, Les cloches (The Bells), to the strident tone clusters of no. 45, Les diablotins (The Imps), and closing with a further evocation...

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...

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

impressionism and atonal music. He employs techniques such as polyrhythm, tone clusters, polytonality, brass glissandi and polymodal chromaticism to create...

falling–rising 243 [˦˨˧] A sequence of two tones (called a tone cluster) may occur on one syllable. There are eleven tone clusters that can occur on verbs to mark...