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                    TARTINI TONES AND MUSIC OF THE SPHERES INTRODUCTION These pages will be devoted to the development and exposition of a truly comprehensive Theory of Harmony --one that is based on inclusion of all the 'missing' tones of conventional Western harmony, the notes 'between the keys' of the keyboard, the tones that have 'fallen through the cracks' in the design of instruments and the traditional techniques of practice. Inspired by the explorations of ancient Greek musicians, geometers and mathematicians --who were boldly eager to define, delineate and perform the most subtle distinctions of interval combinations to a degree, both played and calculated, that Western music has consummately  neglected over the last two thousand years. Proceeding along a musical vector from the brief but daring overtures into the field of microtones by Debussy, Scriabin, Bartok and others, this site will introduce to the modern m...

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