If you're a guitarist, changing the tuning of your instrument is as easy as twisting the machine heads at the end, but pianists are restricted to the static 88 notes that they're given. Or rather they ...

John Beckwith, who turns 80 on March 9, recently started writing music for microtonal piano. You probably haven't seen one of these rare instruments, which look much like any ordinary piano, but which ...

Press play on any gray audio player to hear samples of microtonal compositions. Imagine drawing a sweeping landscape — Chicago’s lovely skyline, say, or maybe a sunset — but you’re stuck using crayons ...

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One of the most intriguing things about Birmingham composer Monroe Golden's CD, "Alabama Places," is the cover. Taken from the Golden family photographs (Golden grew up on a farm near Pell City), it ...