He retained the essential emotion-laden Sopanam style of Kathakali music rendition even while infusing in it the microtone-heavy voice culture of the south Indian classical Carnatic music.
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"Microtone " is also sometimes used to refer to individual notes, " microtonal pitches " added to and distinct from the familiar twelve notes of the chromatic scale, as " enharmonic microtones ", for example.
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Ezra Sims, in the article " Microtone " in the second edition of the " Harvard Dictionary of Music " defines " microtone " as " an interval smaller than a semitone ", which corresponds with Aristoxenus's use of the term " diesis ".
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Ezra Sims, in the article " Microtone " in the second edition of the " Harvard Dictionary of Music " defines " microtone " as " an interval smaller than a semitone ", which corresponds with Aristoxenus's use of the term " diesis ".
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However, the unsigned article " Comma, Schisma " in the same reference source calls comma, schisma and diaschisma " microintervals " but not " microtones ", and in the fourth edition of the same reference ( which retains Sims's article on " Microtone " ) a new " Comma, Schisma " article by Andr?Barbera calls them simply " intervals ".
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In French, the usual term is the somewhat more self-explanatory " micro-intervalle ", and French sources give the equivalent German and English terms as " Mikrointervall " ( or " Kleinintervall " ) and " micro interval " ( or " microtone " ), respectively (;;; . " Microinterval " is a frequent alternative in English, especially in translations of writings by French authors and in discussion of music by French composers (;; ).
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Some of the harmonic language used in the chansons is daring, and approaches the experimental level of chromatic and enharmonic, with no mixture of diatonicism except in an interval in the " bassecontre " and another in the " hautecontre ", made to express the word'death'" However, in a later edition of the same songs ( published posthumously in 1587 ) his publisher removed the dots used as microtone accidentals; evidently they were either too hard to sing, or the notation was too unfamiliar.
