Microtonal Miniature in E

I have concocted yet another microtonal piece!  This time I realized that I could mix-up the varieties of stepwise motion that I use in my microtonal pieces.  Besides the regular half-steps and whole-steps in a scale, I delved into steps that are slightly smaller and slightly bigger than a whole step (3/4 steps and 5/4 steps).  I used the steps in this piece, to build a microtonal variety of a pentatonic scale.  I hope you enjoy the weird result!  Thank you for listening and I would really appreciate any suggestions, critiques, comments or observations you may have!

This sounds like an old honky-tonk piano lol. The concept of the piece is catchy and I love the beat. The most interesting part to me is at around measure 31, where you make use of the microtone in such a way that it sounds like you are slurring the chords to change key. Something I've been wondering about microtonal music is if completely different harmonies can be created. So far you've demonstrated subtle use of microtones to slightly alter the nuance. But what if they can be used to create harmonies that are completely foreign from traditional harmony?

2 minutes ago, chopin said:

But what if they can be used to create harmonies that are completely foreign from traditional harmony?

I think, because the harmonic series is present in every pitch played, our ears will hear things in relation to that, and thus, any foreign or more novel harmony will simply be heard as a sub-minor, neutral or super-major variety of interval that we're already familiar with.  The differences just aren't big enough for our ears to interpret them as something that is completely new - rather, they'll be heard as flavors of intervals that we already know and love.

Hey Peter,

For me this one sounds like an out of tuned Chinese melody with a Schubertian Moment Musical no.3 accompaniment. It’s really weird haha. It’s Chinese New Year coming and it will be a great New Year tune LoL.

Henry

I really liked this piece! It's like a mixture between Blackwood and some pentatonic music from asia or even gamelan. I didn't hear anything odd and it's good nice colors and a catchy rhythm.

I do feel like this could be the A or B section of a longer piece though, or even a little suite. 

Also maybe I'm missing small 1 measure bridges/transitions at some points, like where you go back to the initial theme. And experiment with what kind of cadences are possible and natural sounding in the tuning system you used. But great job. 😁