A Microtonal Analysis of Igor Stravinsky’s Concept of Pitch and Its Resulting Scale

Igor Stravinsky towers as the most prominent composer of 20th century. When asked on a television broadcast what Maestro believed to be next direction in music, claimed that it would microtonality. The author article, who is specialist microtonality, proposes microtonal interpretation performances Stravinsky’s musical compositions. He substantiates validity such an approach from particular spelling certain chromatic intervals his works, which clearly infer overtone series, well composer’s words pronounced written texts. What had common with other geniuses century and earlier times was inner hierarchical ordering constellation tonal relationships. However, each these composers completely different model idealized intonation constituted their respective minds. author’s additional experience microtonality thorough study historical European non-European alternate tunings temperaments, result he has been able determine them are appropriate for being employing performing music by past epochs, J.S. Bach, Mozart Beethoven. This provides substantiation interpretations music. Citing northern Lithuanian folk tradition expressed Sutartines, close its essence great oeuvres, presents 128-note-per-octave scale created him use own compositions, based extension eighth octave viable tuning apply