TMers,
As some of you know I've become very interested over the past few years in the expressive nature of microtonal music, both within conventionally notated music and free improvisation. The following website was recently brought to my attention by Ben Grow, a former trumpet major at Rice who's now following a theory degree at McGill.
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This website introduces approaches to playing quarter-tones (24-div) and eighth-tones (48-div) on a standard 3-valve trumpet and, using a specially constructed conversion kit (which is described), 19 equal divisions of the octave (19-div). Imaginative teachers are encouraged to adapt the ideas and approaches to encourage younger students.
This music obviously isn't for everyone but I think that it's VERY interesting. Your comments, please?
Best,
EC