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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

consonant clusters in Old Chinese was analysed in coda and post-coda position. Some "departing tone" syllables have cognates in the "entering tone" syllables...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

fingers sweeping across the strings with the flat of the hand (producing a tone cluster) sweeping along one or more strings with the flesh of the finger(s) scraping...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

or rhythms, thus resulting in tone clusters.[citation needed] According to David Cope, "micropolyphony resembles cluster chords, but differs in its use...

called the leading-tone triad. This chord has a dominant function. Unlike the dominant triad or dominant seventh, the leading-tone triad functions as...