Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

9/1/1978 - 8/31/1980

Funding Totals

$58,028.00 (approved)
$58,028.00 (awarded)


Potential & Characteristics of Equal Mic rotonal Tunings

FAIN: RO-*0642-78

Webster University (St. Louis, MO 63119-3141)
Easley Blackwood (Project Director: November 1977 to October 1990)

To systematically explore the musical potential of translating octaves into smaller intervals. A book summarizing the theoretical concepts and compositional potentials of multiple tonalities will result. Such a study will have long range implications for the future of music.