These are various notes - mine and others - on microtonal composition. This continues to evolve. It's worth checking back from time to time. An article on Just Intonation guitars is in progress. Meantime, here's some stuff you might enjoy.

r. l. reid's notes on microtonal composition

My interest in this subject
My soundfiles
My Software Kithara man page
Partch's 43 tone scale - quick and dirty intro
Cover page for Partch's ms of Castor and Pollux
First page Partch's ms of Castor and Pollux
My C code to generate incipient tonality diamonds
Changing DSP tuning on NeXT in a Scorefile
Ross Abell's French Baroque Meantone Systems
Ro answers some questions about Adapted Guitar
The Just Intonation Network, which you should join
Roland Hutchinson's Bibliography
Neil Midkiff's Survey Article
Microtuning the Yamaha DX11/TX81Z
H A Kellners reconstruction of the tuning for Bachs WTC
The British Harry Partch Society

ro's home page

ro@rreid.net