Re: Quarter-tones

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> quarter-tone accidentals, on the other hand, have a long history of 
> common usage and are well-entrenched in the current notational lexicon 
> available to composers AND readable by performers. in my many years of 
> work as a performer in the field of avant-garde concert music, i have 
> run into quarter-tone notation MANY times, but can't recall a single 
> instance of other microtonal divisions in printed music. i DO know folks 
> who work in the microtonal area, but the performance and 
> instrument-building skills required generally limit those activities to 
> a few folks.
> 
> bottom line: performers and composers generally know about  and are 
> comfortable with quarter-tones, so they should be included.

See 1.9 CVS:

   * Quarter tones are now supported. They are entered by suffixing
     `ih' for a half-sharp and `eh' for a half-flat. Hence, the
     following is an ascending list of pitches:

            ceses ceseh ces ceh c cih cis cisih cisis




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