Sentence examples for tuning systems from inspiring English sources

These composers' styles vary greatly, but they share a sensibility steeped in both Asian and Western timbres and tuning systems.

With the development of harmony and the increased use of chromatic notes, both tuning systems became increasingly unsatisfactory.

Cowell was solidly grounded and a brilliant theoretician of music, and of its multitude of possible scales, tuning systems and rhythmic and microtonal complexities.

Ives's sketches are fragmentary, but they suggest an immensely complex structure in which rhythms, tempos, harmonies, timbres, and tuning systems are superimposed in a cosmic blur.

Those extremes, if that's what they are, can co-exist – they resonate in their own musical contexts as sentiment or ritual; they represent tuning systems as ways of structuring phenomena; or they stand for particular forms of social order.

American composer James Tenney was fixated on tuning systems that he felt were infinitely more complex and multi-layered than the standard equal temperament, the system through which Western orchestras and instruments are tuned.

A variety of gamelan exists, each with a special function, instrumentation, repertoire, and tuning system.

By means of tuning system parameters, numerical simulation shows that PSR method can effectively recover the spatial signal interfered by Gaussian noise.

State educators with authority to fine-tune systems could take pride in their work, leading to better results.

Mahmoud is hoping to wing it past the carefully tuned system of checks and balances.

Atop a rock outcropping here, clinking bags of equipment and a seemingly chaotic sea of ropes turned into a precisely tuned system when assembled and weighted.