Document Type
Theses, Ph.D
Disciplines
Arts, Musicology
Abstract
This practice-based research (driven by an initial improvisatory pluck on the opposite side of a fretted note, producing a microtone) focuses on the development of a new hybrid microtonal system derived from inverting the measurements of a 24-fret guitar fingerboard and superimposing them onto a normal fretboard, produced a 40-fret guitar with numerous additional microtonal intervals. This resulted in a composite scale structure consisting of a standard twelve-tone equal temperament (12-TET) system in addition to microtonal intervals of varied sizes. The structure of this fretboard produced a distinctive, performatively accessible, cluster of microtones at the beginning of the fretboard, contributing structural definition to the resultant evolving practice. The attractiveness of such an approach is that the idiomatic performance structures of the microtonal fretboard can be seen as contributing to the definition of the resultng scale's performative potential.
Recommended Citation
Nielsen, Michael, "Improvising a Microtonal System: The Creative Implications of a Hybrid Scale Calculated from the Reversed Fretboard Structure of a Standard 24-Fret Guitar, and the Resulting Xenharmonic Microtonal System Vol. I" (2017). Masters. 114.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/scienmas/114
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Publication Details
Nielsen, M. (2017). Improvising a Microtonal System: the creative implications of a hybrid scale calculated from the reversed fretboard structure of a standard 24-fret guitar, and the resulting xenharmonic microtonal system. Volume I.
School of Arts and Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, October 2017