{"id":5571,"date":"2019-03-29T20:43:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2019-04-23T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:15:45","slug":"dodecatonal-music-is-the-term-for-music-that-is-not-microtonal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/?p=5571","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDODECATONAL MUSIC\u201d is the term for music that is not microtonal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDODECATONAL MUSIC<\/strong>\u201d is the term Michael W. Dean from BipTunia coined to mean \u201c12-tone equal temperament music, as opposed to microtonal music.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dodeca-<\/strong> <\/em>prefix is from the Greek cardinal number prefix series<\/a> for “12”:<\/p>\n

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It is a more exact and elegant, yet also simple, solution than saying “non-microtonal music.” Especially since the phrase “microtonal” was created to mean “as opposed to “normal” (Dodecatonal) music that is in 12-tone equal temperament.”<\/p>\n

All music was “microtonal” before the advent of 12-tone equal temperament. 12-tone equal temperament has become nearly universal in all western music; from the Beatles to the Sex Pistols to jazz to folk to modern classical to modern hip-hop.<\/p>\n

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The Dodeca<\/strong>– <\/em>prefix is pronounced the same as the first half of the word dodecahedron. This word means any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. It’s commonly used <\/span>for the 12-sided die used in fantasy board games (short pronunciation video here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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This BipTunia song is Dodecatonal Music<\/a>, and includes the pronunciation of DODECATONAL <\/strong>right up front. It’s a sample of Phil Wormuth, poet laureate of BipTunia.<\/p>\n

It’s a nifty word, and rolls off the tongue in a rhythmic manner.<\/p>\n

DODECATONAL MUSIC<\/strong> is not to be confused with Dodecaphonic music,<\/strong> i,e. 12-tone serialism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDODECATONAL MUSIC\u201d is the term Michael W. Dean from BipTunia coined to mean \u201c12-tone equal temperament music, as opposed to microtonal music.\u201d The Dodeca- prefix is from the Greek cardinal number prefix series for “12”:     It is a more exact and elegant, yet also simple, solution than saying “non-microtonal music.” Especially since the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biptunia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biptunia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}